Explore GPTs: So Much More Than Chat
Did you know that OpenAI - the creator of ChatGPT - has SO many additional tools and and custom versions built around ChatGPT? These tools include things like DALL-E (which I have mentioned in a previous post), writing tools, productivity tools, creative tools and education tools. The list is growing all the time and if you have enough programming skills of your own, you can even make your own custom GPT. I’ve picked out a selection of some of my favorite GPTs, and I strongly recommend checking out the entire list on your own. So in no particular order - here they are!
Video Summarizer is a very slick tool that allows you to paste in a link from any YouTube video, and it will create a summary of the video. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well it really works. I pasted in a YouTube link from a MusicFirst webinar that we hosted a few months ago on how you can use Sight Reading Factory in the Choral Classroom, presented by Jeremy Little. This is what it produced. And yes, it is 100% accurate.
Pretty mind blowing, and an amazing tool for both teachers and students.
Scholar GPT is an incredible resource if you are doing any type of research. If you prompt it to show you all of the research in a given topic, it scours all of the internet, including resources like JSTOR and ERIC, and provides you with a list of relevant research, complete with the authors, year of publication, and links to access the actual study. Here is an example of what Scholar GPT provided me when I asked it to find dissertations about online assessment in music - too bad my dissertation was written in 2002!
Whether you are in graduate school or just doing research on any topic, this is an invaluable research tool.
While we are all eagerly awaiting the release of Sora - the new text-to-video generator from OpenAI, I decided to give one of the current text-to-video GPTS a try - Video GPT by VEED. I asked Video GPT to create a video about an elementary school chorus singing at a concert. It then asked me to answer the following questions:
What's the primary message or goal of the video? For example, is it to showcase the talent of the students, to capture a special performance, or perhaps to promote the school's music program?
Who is the target audience for this video? Is it intended for parents, fellow students, or maybe a broader audience on social media?
What tone or mood are you aiming to achieve? Should it be uplifting and joyful, or more formal and serious?
How long would you like your video to be? The default length is 20 seconds, but we can adjust this based on your needs.
I responded: The goal of the video is to promote the school music program and the target audience is the local community. It should be a feel good happy video with lots of smiling children enjoying singing. It should be about 30 seconds long
Here is the video it produced:
Is it a good video? Well…..no. Is it pretty incredible that it can put together a pretty good script and have an avatar act as a narrator without any other work on my end? Absolutely. Will this type of technology get better and better? Definitely. I am sure that Sora will have a tremendous impact on video creation in the future. Here is the trailer for it. I’m sure you’ll agree that its pretty mind blowing!
There are at least 50 other GPTs to explore - and this is only what OpenAI is promoting. If you Google GPTs, you’ll find that there are countless others. We are at the very beginning of this revolution. Here are a few other GPTs that aren’t really educational, but sure sound fun!
