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AI Advocates
Welcome to AI Advocates, a podcast dedicated to helping educators integrate artificial intelligence into their classrooms to save time, enhance learning, and provide more equitable educational opportunities. Hosted by Dr. Lisa Dieker and Dr. Maggie Mosher from the Achievement & Assessment Institute at the University of Kansas, this podcast offers practical tips, tools, and strategies for teachers looking to incorporate AI into their teaching practices safely and effectively.
In each episode, Lisa and Maggie explore the world of AI, breaking down key concepts like Narrow AI, Generative AI, and the emerging field of Superintelligent AI. They share insights on how AI can transform education by supporting both educators and students, and how teachers can leverage AI tools to improve accessibility, equity, and learning outcomes.
Whether you’re just beginning to explore AI or looking for ways to make it work in your classroom, AI Advocates is your go-to resource for all things AI in education. Tune in for short, bite-sized episodes packed with practical advice, thought-provoking discussions, and a few laughs along the way!
AI Advocates
S1 E9: Beyond Basic ChatGPT: Discovering AI Built Just for You
In this episode of AI Advocates, hosts Dr. Lisa Dieker and Dr. Maggie Mosher dive into the world of custom ChatGPT bots—exploring how educators, grant writers, and even statisticians can benefit from specialized AI tools tailored to their needs. From the "Undetectable AI Humanizer" to bots trained by real experts in fields like statistics, grant writing, and language, Lisa and Maggie share practical insights and favorite finds. They also break down what GPT really stands for and how the tech behind it is reshaping education and communication. Tune in for tools, laughs, and a surprisingly accurate AI take on history and geography. Plus—ever wondered what happens when ChatGPT brews beer? You’ll want to hear this one.
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Lisa Dieker:Welcome to AI Advocates. I'm Lisa Dieker.
Maggie Mosher:And I'm Maggie Mosher.
Lisa Dieker:And we are here today talking about.
Maggie Mosher:ChatGPT's Open AI. Their specific bots. They have so many fun little bots.
Lisa Dieker:So before we talk about their bots, we should probably talk a little bit about what's ChatGPT. So if you don't know, it's probably the one that's, I wouldn't say most common, but maybe the one people I've heard of the most. It depends. Again, we keep recommending go deep, get to know one really well, but it is a generative AI platform, and it you want to share how you use it, then I'm gonna tell a little bit about what GPT stands for. That's like the greatest mistery in the world.
Maggie Mosher:Yeah, I actually never use basic ChatGPT. I only use the bots. The reason being, ChatGPT, the basic it does grab from everywhere. So the only time I ever use the basic one is for images. Yeah, because the images are really good. When you do grab from everywhere. But most of the time, the information isn't very accurate when it's I mean, it's good, but not as accurate as Copilot or some others. But they're custom bots. What I love about them, and I will tell you my favorite one currently, is called Undetectable AI Humanizer. It's a custom bot, but they have custom bots that were created by experts. So they have one that was created by a statistics professor, called Probability and Statistics Professor;
Lisa Dieker:No I'm just kidding. I love it. I love it.
Maggie Mosher:And you can go to him and ask him a stats question, I had Bruce. Dr. Bruce Frey, the Statistician. I had him go and talk to it and say, hey, is this really accurate? Because I don't even know some of you know what he's talking back, and he's like, yeah, I've never asked a chatbot and gotten a correct answer.
Lisa Dieker:That's good.
Maggie Mosher:So that was cool, but it has things like Expert Grant Writer. So a lot of us are teachers, not grant writers, but we need stuff for our kids. An expert grant writer will walk you through. Here's my student's needs. What grant is available for me, and it'll pull some of those grants, and.
Lisa Dieker:Is there a Disability Humanizer AI Expert?
Maggie Mosher:There is an expert in almost anything, and has a search. So you can search for your experts, but I would look at the behind-the-scenes of your experts. So like what I looked at on Undetectable AI Humanizer is when you click on it, it'll actually tell you, like, about it. It has an about feature. It'll tell you, who created it, how many conversations it's had. You want one that's had a lot of conversations, not a few. And then what its ratings are. The reason that I think the Undetectable AI human, Humanizer does a really good job is a lot of AI sounds like, AI like it sounds very.
Lisa Dieker:Yeah, I played with it. It sounds like a human.
Maggie Mosher:It's amazing. How much.
Lisa Dieker:Do they have, diversity of voices and accents. I know, the last one we watched, I said Maggie, they're both guys, and one's an AD and one's British. I'm like, Could we have a third choice? And she's like, yes, they're coming, but I didn't know if all the humans were the same, even though they're humanized,
Maggie Mosher:Yeah. Well, what's nice about this one is it's so good that it doesn't come up on any of the is this AI? Some of that is spacing and things as to the reason it comes up. But a lot of the reason it comes up is because certain words are always used, and they're not words that are from books that we used to love as kids. You know, the really rich words, they're not used in AI, but the words that people use and throw out there a lot in magazines or articles, but those rich words aren't in context and are used. So I asked it some questions about the Dine Tribe to see how accurate it would be. And what I was really impressed by is it gave me specific words, and it pronounced them correctly. Very few things do, um, it pronounced them.
Lisa Dieker:I wouldn't be Dieker, because that's what I am everywhere instead of Dieker. Even my phone calls me my wrong name.
Maggie Mosher:And so it gave so I honestly felt like I could take my students to that bot. Yeah, it gave me a map of what the Long Walk was. Not even some history books get that right. So give me a map of this is where we.
Lisa Dieker:And was that a humanizer of your tribe, or was it just an AI?
Maggie Mosher:No, so they just did it a specific AI person grabbed all of this really core information, quality information, put it in just like I did with our AI Advocate's bot. I did, I put in our 55 of our specific presentations. And so it sounds like us, because it has a lot of our presentations. Same thing with this gentleman. He put in very specific things, great, great books and works and different cultural things. So it sounds a lot more like I'm actually talking to a human.
Lisa Dieker:Well, and so we thought we have not told you what GPT stands for. And since it's kind of everywhere and literally, everything that we're talking about really is GPT, but that stands for Generative, Pre-Trained, Pre-Trained, Transformer. And so basically what Maggie just shared is all of those things that are in there were generative and was training it, and now it transforms it into sounding more like a human. And, you know, that's really the transforming is the underlying technology. In case you didn't know what the GPT lots of people when I mentioned that, like, I didn't know that's what it is. And I'm like, yeah, it's not just that it's it's technology, it's generative, and it's being trained. It's not just you magically get to go on Copilot or on ChatGPT or Google Gemini or Magic School AI, or anywhere else we've talked about. It has that as an underlying.
Maggie Mosher:And the generative piece, I think, is really important too, because a lot of people forget that it is trained based on patterns. That generative piece is very patterned, so that's why getting some of these specialized bots, they're patterned in a more in a more specialized manner. Even before you've trained their pattern differently.
Lisa Dieker:And we both know that training has a lot of bias, a lot of bias against multiple places and culture. But I do have to end on a funny note, one of my favorite examples when I talk about GPT is a bar, I believe it's in Boston, has called the Night Shift Brewing actually has ChatGPT make its beer, and whatever it comes up with, that's what they make. And I think my favorite one that I've seen the picture of is AIPA. So for those you drink IPA, you might try that if you're a home brewer, you know, putting it in. But again, you can do that with recipes. You can throw 10 things in your and that's what's generative about it. It says, oh, if you've got mushrooms and onions and cheese and milk and you might have one egg, it might give you a way to do something very creative with that. And it's because it's been trained to say, those are the things that are there. So humanizer is cool. Is there a chef humanizer?
Maggie Mosher:There is a chef in there. There's a MasterChef in there.
Lisa Dieker:Is there a brewmaster?
Maggie Mosher:I haven't seen a brewmaster. That's a new one, but I also would say cultures and languages, you're going to get a better GPT for language, especially if it's already been trained by someone who speaks that language.
Lisa Dieker:Right? Absolutely.
Maggie Mosher:So yeah.
Lisa Dieker:That's kind of like when you go to a rural country and it's versus learning it online. So well, there is your tip for today, and we think it will.
Maggie Mosher:Save you time and money.
Lisa Dieker:Yeah, so thanks for joining us on AI Advocates.