Do LLMs Reduce Workload?

Good afternoon, human,

We are nearing the end of 2024. This will mark the end of the formal newsletters for the year, but I will be sending out some updates and thoughts on AI over the Xmas period. Normal service will be resumed on the 7th January 2025.

📚 Knowledge builders

• Teaching With ChatGPT → This week, the EEF reported back on their Teacher Choices Trial (see industry update). As part of the release, they have included the professional development that the teachers who took part in the trial had.

🤖 Industry updates

•  ChatGPT and Workload → The report highlighted the following: The results of the trial demonstrated that with minimal support, teachers saved around 31% of time, compared to the control group who did not use AI. In addition, there was no disernable differences between the quality of the resources that the two groups produced. However, I have been unable to see the quality of the outputs. If there is no discernible difference in quality, but the quality is poor, then this is not helpful.

• SearchGPT for Everyone → Announced earlier in October, OpenAI have now made SearchGPT free for everyone who logs in to ChatGPT. The benefits of this is that it provides real-time data that ChatGPT can use in its outputs. Previously, there was a cut-off date that on world knowledge that the model knew because of when it was trained.

✨ Fresh prompts

1. Shades of Meaning → Vocabulary is incredibly important across all levels of education, and understanding the nuances between words that have similar meanings is core to developing vocabulary depth. Use in Co-Pilot, ChatGPT or Gemini.

Where would you put the word whisper on a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is no talking and 10 is the loudest you could be? Once you have done that, come up with words that would be placed in other parts of the scale.

Here is the output.

As ever, thanks for reading and keep on prompting! Mr A 🦾