4 Length
Student Learning Objective
- Create Generative AI prompts that result in outputs of different lengths.
There is no standard length to a Generative AI response but the software will attempt to provide a comprehensive output to answer to the prompt that has been inputted. In some situations, this may result in a longer explanation than required. Students are able to direct Generative AI to create responses of varying length by including this direction in their prompts.
Activity Steps
- Provide students with a topic for this activity.
- Ask students develop 2 prompts for generative AI, one that will result in a long response and one that will result in a short response.
- Have students enter both prompts into the software in turn and analyze the outputs.
Discussion Questions
- In what situations or circumstances may the long response provided by AI be useful? How about the short response?
- What other words might we use to retrieve a short response? (Summarize, paraphrase, etc.)
- Compare the long and the short responses. Do you feel as though there is any relevant information contained in the long response that is not included in the short response?
- Do you notice any issues with accuracy of the response? Did accuracy vary between the short and long response?
Considerations
- Do you want the students to use Prompt Chaining to generate the different responses or to do these in separate searches?
- Please refer to cautions that apply to all activities using Generative AI.
Example Prompts
- What is the importance of superconductors?
- Give me this response in a four-paragraph response.
- Summarize this in three sentences.
- Write a short story about a cat in a coffee shop.
- Write a four-sentence story about a cat in a coffee shop.
- Explain the difference between qualitative and quantitative research.
- Give me this explanation in 5 bullet points.
- Give me this explanation in the form of a 6 paragraph essay.
