26–30 Aug 2024
Auditorium Maximum UJ
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Prompt engineering techniques to enhance Large Language Models' performance in introductory physics

30 Aug 2024, 11:50
20m
Small Hall

Small Hall

Oral presentations Multimedia, AR, VR and AI in Physics Education Oral presentations

Speaker

Ms Giulia Polverini (Uppsala University)

Description

Prompt engineering has increasingly garnered attention with the widespread use of AI-based chatbots over the past year. The formulation of prompts highly impacts the output of chatbots, which rely on Large Language Models and thus generate text that is a statistically good fit with both its training data and the users’ prompt. Through examples from introductory physics, this study shows how selected prompt techniques can enhance the performance of chatbots like ChatGPT. In our investigation, we observed that upon using two specific prompt engineering techniques, the chatbot’s responses improved both in the rate of correctness and quality of the argumentation.

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Target education level University
Category Formal Education

Author

Ms Giulia Polverini (Uppsala University)

Co-author

Mr Bor Gregorcic (Uppsala University)

Presentation materials