Granularity is precision.
If the outputs you’re getting from AI aren’t the quality you expect, chances are that there isn’t enough granularity in either the data you’re giving it or the prompt you’re asking it.
Remember that generative AI tools – language models in particular – need to talk. They need to say things out loud. They need to load up a conversation with relevant data BEFORE performing a task, or their performance will be suboptimal.
“Write me a blog post about…” yields dreck.
“Talk through the points about this topic…” will prime the model, especially if you do things like contrastive prompting. “Tell me what points about this topic are hotly debated” or “tell me what things about this topic are thought to be false but are actually true”.
Above all else, let the models talk. The more they talk, the more granular they can be, and the greater their precision.
Earlier today a friend sent me a photo with no other information. I asked Gemini to guess where it was. Unprimed, it guessed location 1, Aberyscir. Primed, it guessed location 2, Llangollen. The actual location is location 3, Caer Drewyn.
How did we increase its accuracy? By letting it talk.
This was the prompt for location 1’s result:
“Using your knowledge of geography, identify this location. Return your results as both latitude and longitude coordinates as well as an address.”
Pretty poor, huh?
Here is the prompt for location 2’s result:
“Using your knowledge of geography, identify this location. Return your results as both latitude and longitude coordinates as well as an address.
Here’s how to solve this task.
- Identify major characteristics in the image, such as geographic features, landmarks, etc.
- Identify patterns such as roads and rivers.
- Develop a list of 5 candidate locations.
- Score each location based on a 0-100 scale of probability it matches that location, with an explanation of which features map to the location.
- Select the winning location by highest probability.”
By letting the model talk things out, it dramatically increased its accuracy.
Talking = granularity = precision.
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