Getting good answers from an artificial intelligence can be a tricky task, and now researchers have found that an AI is better at asking questions of another AI than people are

Technology 10 November 2022

How AIs arrive at their decisions can be something of a mystery

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An artificial intelligence model that makes suggestions to another AI can get it to produce results that are as good as if the prompts came from humans. The technique could be used to improve the performance of AIs whose internal workings remain opaque.

Large language models (LLMs) are neural networks that are trained on vast data sets of online text and can produce convincing language. You give the model an input, called a prompt, and it gives you …