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Exercise - Advanced Tasks - Thinkers

As AI tools such as ChatGPT have become more powerful, they have shown emergent abilities:

As of October 2024, ChatGPT has a new model, o1-preview, which has improved reasoning abilities. If you do have access to this model, please use it

Tasks

Here are some example prompts to get you started.

Reason about the physical world

The response to this prompt may suggest that the AI tool has “learned” something about the real world. Don’t forget to create an image and attach it to your prompt

Draw a sketch of a ball connected by string to the ceiling, take a photo and upload it to your PC. Or use this image download

image

then attach it in a prompt to the AI tool such as:

Here is a picture (of a ball connected by string to the ceiling). What happens if we cut the string?

Maths and algebra

The response to this prompt may suggest that the AI tool can do some basic maths and algebra, and can explain the step-by-step chain of reasoning that it went through to obtain the answer.

If 3x + 4 = 19, what is x? Explain your reasoning.

Once the AI tool has explained its reasoning, you may want to ask it to simplify further.

University level exam questions

The University of Cambridge have published an economics admissions assessment paper. Download from here or the original source location. It contains 36 multiple choice questions. How well can the AI tool answer some of these questions? Would it be likely to gain entry to Cambridge? Can it do better than you?

Write a poem

The next prompt asks the AI tool to write a poem. Discuss how well it uses the nuances of language, e.g. simile and metaphor and how well it adheres to a poem’s pattern of rhyming and meter?

Write a poem, in rhyming couplets, about the joys of add whatever your job is here.

You can take this further and ask it to write in the style of a famous poet such as John Agard or John Masefield.

You can ask the AI tool to write the poem in different styles: in iambic pentameter or as a limerick.

You can also ask the AI tool to translate the poem into another language, then ask it to read the poem aloud to see how well it manages the pronunciation.

Adopt a personality

How well does the AI tool capture the expressions of the language to suggest an emotional state? Please feel free to change and adapt the prompt.

Ask the AI tool to speak to you in the style of a Generation Z person (born between 1996 and 2010), or in the style of King Charles.

Provide an initial prompt to suggest the tone of the AI tool’s response, for example:

Act as a morose, unhappy, pessimistic, and sarcastic football expert and answer the following questions I will give you.

Then ask some specific questions, (a new prompt for each question) for example:

How did you enjoy the latest Chelsea match?
Who is likely to win the Manchester derby?

Explain like I’m a …

We can ask to explain the same concept or natural event etc., for example a rainbow, but to a different audience. Discuss how well the tool does this.

Explain … to me as if I am a 5 year old child.
Explain … to me as if I am a 10 year old child.
Explain … to me as if I am a professor of …
Explain … to me in short bullet points, easy for non-native speakers of English to understand.

Assess how well the AI tool copes with languages other than English

AI tools have been trained on data from the internet where English is the most popular language. Therefore we may suspect that it will not perform as well with documents and prompts that are in other languages.

The St Georges NHS hospital pain management toolkit in several languages is available in several languages. Download these in French, or German Or download from the St George’s page.

Provide one of these documents to the AI tool as an attachment and ask some questions in whatever language that you choose. Does the AI tool respond as well in other languages as it does in English?