Google researchers say you can tell AI to 'take a deep breath and work on this problem step by step' to improve its accuracy

• Google DeepMind researchers published a study on September 7 on how simple prompts could improve AI's accuracy.
• "Take a deep breath and work on this problem step by step" was the most effective phrase tested, per the study.
• When the phrase was used, Google's PaLM 2 AI model was 80% accurate with math problems, compared to 34% without it.

Asking Google's PaLM 2 artificial intelligence to "take a deep breath and work on this problem step by step" was the most effective prompt tested by Google DeepMind researchers to improve AI's accuracy, according to a study published on September 7.