TeacherMatic is a team of people who have taught and worked in education for many years. We are committed to improving educational outcomes for learners and helping teachers make their jobs easier and more engaging through the use of technology.

Nov. 23, 2023

In straightforward terms, GPT-3 is an AI engine with a natural language processing front end. So if you supply it with some human text (like a question), it will respond accordingly, just like a human would. GPT-3 is extraordinary in that it has been ‘trained’ on just about everything on the Internet so it ‘knows’ a lot.  However, it is important to  keep in mind, that GPT-3 is pretty dumb and does not know if what it answers is true. So anyone using GPT-3 must carefully review anything it produces for inaccuracies.

Nov. 23, 2023

The TeacherMatic generators are  a set of routines that we have developed that ensure that when a user wants something from GPT-3 (like a lesson plan), the output always comes back is of good quality and in the right format to use.  In the background, our generators take the input query from the teacher and modifies it to get the best results back. To do this, we have spent many hours ‘tweaking’ the generators to get the best results.  Many of the generators also have additional modifiers (like level of schooling) to make it easier for teachers to ensure that the response from GPT-3 meets their needs.

Nov. 23, 2023

GPT-3 is a little like Google: you type something in and something comes back. The difference is that  GPT-3 does not return a list of Websites, it returns an ‘answer’ in English. GPT-3 will answer as if it was a human, but it’s just a very sophisticated program that appears to be human. So you might use GPT-3 directly or you can use TeacherMatic to do it for you.  We have worked hard to make sure that if you want a ‘lesson plan’ GPT-3 returns something useful and in the right format. You can spend a lot of trial and error to get GPT-3 to produce what you want.

Nov. 23, 2023