Have you ever felt like some topics are just too hard to understand? Complex topics don’t have to be a struggle. With ChatGPT Clarity, understanding complex topics is just a question away. Say ’explain like I’m five’ and receive easy-to-understand responses. Let’s get started!
Let’s say you want to learn how large language models work, but you don’t have any idea about the basic concepts. So, you prompt ChatGPT with ‘As I want to learn how large language models work, can you explain like I am five?’ Let’s see what ChatGPT can do.
It starts with an example for a 5-year-old. Imagine your brain is like a toy box full of building blocks. Each block has a word or a small piece of a sentence on it. When someone asks you a question, you pick up these blocks and put them together to make a sentence that answers the question. The more blocks you have, the better you are at putting them together, and the better your answer will be.
Then it compares this example with large language models. A large language model like ChatGPT is like a really, really big toy box with millions of blocks. When you ask ChatGPT a question, it quickly looks through all its blocks and puts them together in a way that makes a good answer. Just like you learned from reading books and talking to people, ChatGPT has learned from looking at lots of words on the internet and in books.
As you can see, the response was easy to understand, even for a 5-year-old. Now, let’s look at the normal ChatGPT answer to the same question without considering that I am five. We get a solid answer with more technical terms.
Now, let’s ask ChatGPT to analyze the difference in the 5-year-old response compared to the normal response. The response to the 5-year-old is simplified and uses analogies to make the concept more relatable and easy to understand. It likens the language model to a toy box full of building blocks, where each block is a word or piece of a sentence. This helps to convey the idea in terms that are more accessible to a young child. The normal response, on the other hand, uses technical terms like neural network, statistical properties, and multiple layers to provide a more detailed and accurate explanation. It assumes a higher level of familiarity with concepts related to computer science and machine learning.
Now, let’s ask for the process used by ChatGPT to generate the answer for a 5-year-old. Here are the key points of the process:
- Identify the core concept
- Simplify terminology and avoid technical jargon
- Use analogies or metaphors as children understand the world largely through their immediate experiences
- Be brief and direct as young children usually have shorter attention spans
- Use engaging language
- Add safety reminders
Now we know the difference in the answer and how the answer is constructed. We can use this technique to get a basic understanding of any complex topic.
What if you didn’t understand the example? It’s simple, just ask for more explanations. Let’s ask for alternative explanations with different examples. Now we have three distinctive examples that explain the same idea.
Feel free to test and use the ’explain like I’m five’ method for learning new topics. This method is a highly popular prompting technique.
Let’s take a look at what ’explain like I’m five’ reveals about our brains. Our brains prefer information that is easy to process. This prompt simplifies complex concepts, which aligns with our natural preference for cognitive ease. This method often employs playful and imaginative language, which can engage our curiosity and make learning more enjoyable. It uses analogies to explain complex topics, mirroring our natural tendency to understand new information by relating it to something familiar.
In a fast-paced world, many individuals seek quick and straightforward explanations to satisfy their curiosity or solve problems. This method is one of the quickest ways to get an idea about something. Technical jargon can be a barrier to understanding, but this method avoids jargon, making information more accessible.
That’s it for today. Feel free to test the ’explain like I’m five’ method. Thanks for watching. Subscribe to our channel and like this video to see more AI-related videos.
