OpenAI releasing GPT store next week: what does this mean for educators?

OpenAI just announced their GPT store would be available next week.

What is a GPT?!

Think of it like your own personal chatbot which you train on specific knowledge and tasks.

Why might this be important? For most folks who have worked with an assistant/intern, you learn that it takes a few reps for them to learn your preferences and vision for tasks.

In education, there are so many tasks an assistant could easily accomplish after being trained to do so, and over time, they would master it like we have. Enter GPTs.

With the GPT store being live next week, it creates a marketplace for talented educators to leverage their talents in the classroom to train chatbots (assistants) who can impact colleagues across the world.

And the best part of GPTs is the “training” needed to create GPTs isn’t coding, it is prompting.

What is “prompt engineering”?

That’s a loaded term for another phrase we are much more familiar with as educators, coaches, parents, and mentors:

explicit instructions.

If you are proficient at giving explicit instructions, you can create a GPT.

My only hope is this opportunity also comes with OpenAI allowing all users, not just paying users, to access and interact with GPTs.

Check out episode 32 of the AI Education Conversation if you want a deep dive on how to create a GPT.

What do you think?🤔