GMTech is a digital tool that allows users to interact with multiple ai models simultaneously through a dashboard that I found easy to use. It is designed with advanced ai users in mind, but after testing it with materials from my classes, I think it could be used by any educator who wants to use ai themselves or better understand how their students might use ai.
GMTech works by allowing you to enter a question or message and then send that message to multiple ai models simultaneously, with responses appearing in separate columns. You have the option to select many of the most popular models from OpenAI, Google, facebook, and more, but I found that working with more than three or four models at a time tended to fill my screen.
Overall, the tool's interface is very smooth, but it is only available to subscribers who pay $14.99 per month or get an annual subscription for $169.99.
Here's a closer look at GMTech and how it compares in the educational environment.
<h2 id="gmtech-helping-understand-how-students-might-interact-with-ai-3″>GMTech: Helping understand how students could interact with ai
One of the interesting things about GMTech is how it provides quick insights into questions students might be asking about various ai models. For example, when I asked the three models “Can you write an article for me?” GPT-4o said: “Of course! I will be happy to help you outline or write an essay.” Meanwhile, Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 1.5 Pro said they would be happy to help me write an article, but they couldn't write it for me because it would be plagiarism.
When I got a message in from one of my classes, Gemini 1.5 Pro went ahead and wrote a response as did GPT-4o. I recognized some of these responses from suspected ai cases that had been previously submitted by students, so it was a good confirmation of that.
It also gave me a quick idea of how different ai models respond to my essay prompts. This can be useful for modifying assignments to make them more ai-resistant and could also help an educator better detect ai-generated work submitted by students.
How a teacher could use GMTech
When it comes to helping teachers with busy work, GMTech really shines. I haven't used ai to generate quizzes or presentations, mainly because I have mixed feelings about the ethical implications. However, beyond those concerns, I haven't been tempted to use ai because it hasn't been much help in my experiments. I suspect that writing better prompts would result in better materials, but in the time I spend improving my prompts, I could simply compile the materials myself, the old-fashioned way.
Working with GMTech could change that equation for me. For example, I asked him to create a quiz based on a reading I assigned in class. None of the answers I received were perfect, but all of the ai models shared a couple of decent questions. Using GMTech would allow teachers to quickly choose the highest quality answers and create their own quizzes.
The same thing happened when I asked for help creating a presentation: on their own, none of the ai models really did a good job, but a combination of the three answers I was looking for would result in a decent presentation.
Of course, you could go to all of these models individually and enter the same message, but that would also add time and effort, and it's nice to have the comparisons in side-by-side columns so you can really see how each model approached it. .
Other strengths of GMTech and some small drawbacks
I also think that a teacher who is working with students to get the most out of ai models would find GMTech useful. It could be a good tool to explore what types of questions specific models work best with.
For example, Claude 3.5 Sonnet would not include quotations from published literary works that I asked him to cite for a presentation; That's good for copyright protection, but not necessarily good for a writing teacher trying to complete something on a deadline, or for students. use ai as part of the presentation. Meanwhile, both GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro would include detailed quotes and discussions, but I found that Gemini 1.5 Pro was willing to cite more in-depth passages, which is what I was looking for in this case.
I only found two drawbacks with GMTech and both had to do with fees.
First, sometimes the ai models you use are not free and their fees are not included in your GMTech subscription. For example, after some prompts, Claude 3.5 Sonnet told me that I had to wait a bit before generating new ones, since I had exhausted the free prompts. This is understandable in general, but frustrating when using a paid tool like GMTech.
That subscription fee is the second drawback. As useful as I find GMTech, without institutional support from somewhere I teach with the subscription fee, I don't see myself justifying the expense of GMTech. I suspect other educators will be in the same boat in the long run.
Still, it might be worth subscribing for a couple of months to better understand the ai models your students might be using and also see which models are most adept at doing what you want. Additionally, GMTech is a tool that ai super users will likely enjoy using, and for that crowd, the $14.99 monthly fee is probably negligible.
