Some AI models get more accurate at maths if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character, ML engineers say

Technology@lemmy.world – 237 points – 4 months ago

AIs are more accurate at math if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character — and we're not sure why

Some AI models get more accurate at maths if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character, ML engineers say::Researchers asking a chatbot to optimize its own prompts found it was best at solving grade-school math when acting like it was on Star Trek.

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*Picks up wireless mouse* Hello, computer.

Thank you Scotty!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride

is this ... transparent Aluminium?

They did it. The crazy son's of bitches did it! Quite awhile ago, it's commercially available.

There is also This transparent aluminum (linked in that same article) and it's been used in phone/watch screens also.

Ah yes. Star Trek: The One With The Whales.

Can you explain this reference for me? I do not understand.

It's a reference to this scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).

::: spoiler Explanation without video Scotty, having traveled back in time to the year 1986 as part of a mission to rescue some whales, attempts to use a computer by speaking to it and then mistakenly tries to use the mouse as a microphone when the machine does not respond. He is prompted to use the keyboard instead of verbal commands and gives information on how to manufacture transparent aluminum. This material was not invented until about 150 years later according to the pre-trip history of the Star Trek future but Scotty has given it a head start. :::

Helping people with their work through teams has taught me that voice control is a disaster to get anything done for anything other than just dictating text.

Oh, thank you for the lengthy explainer.

All I have in return is this fairly interesting video detailing one of the ways we've already found transparent metals. Perhaps over the next 150 years we'll be able to stabilise the material structure.

Thanks again for explaining.