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I think the way to think about prompt engineering is: what would the best teacher preface an instruction to a student with, if they really really wanted the student do do the best possible job?

The worst performer, at 62.7%:

Start by dissecting the problem to highlight important numbers and their relations. Decide on the necessary mathematical operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division, required for resolution. Implement these operations, keeping in mind any units or conditions. Round off by ensuring your solution fits the context of the problem to ensure accuracy.

That is obviously an awful way to start a lesson or a test. Even if someone knows the answer they're going to lose their minds!

The best performer, at 80.2%:

Take a deep breath and work on this problem step-by-step.

So relaxing, so kind, so guaranteed to ensure high performance.

Large Language Models as Optimizers: Paper here

Just like how social media giants spend the majority of their time and resources regulating English-language content, there is definitely not enough attention paid to the abilities of AI tools in non-English languages for things other than translation.

A while back iMEdD analyzed political speeches with ChatGPT, translating them into English prior to the analysis. I had thought hey, you should just do it in the original Greek, but looking at this maybe I was wrong!

I feel like we've heard this a thousand times, but it's going to keep being a problem. Story here.

Translation is the one part of AI tooling that I'm most pessimistic about. While it could be used to really increase access to information, it's really just going to be used as an outlet for low-quality content that's disrespectful to the audience and anchors English even further as the language of the internet.