A convincing use case for LLMs in education

The use of large language models (LLMs) in the context of education continues to be a subject of intense discussion. This ranges from strictly forbidding their use as evil to avoiding any issue by considering them as better spell checkers. I am not going to enter the discussion here, but I want to contribute a convincing use case:

A screenshot showing Google Gemini summarizing the content of two slides and answering four questions on this content.

This screenshot – unfortunately in German – shows how I uploaded the introduction slide deck of my lecture PDP to Google Gemini and asked the questions we get asked most frequently:

1: Will there be any aids allowed in the exam?

2: Will there be an oral or a written exam?

3: In which format will the written exam be carried out?

4: Will there be a final Q&A session at the end of the lecture?

Gemini correctly answers all four questions. The slides showing part of the answer are on the screenshot’s right. I guess I will bring this screenshot to the Q&A session on July 16th to avoid the first four questions, and you should not take this blog post too seriously ;-).