Asking for Non-Obvious Ideas Boosts LLM Creativity Most, Study Finds

A UPenn team led by Arjun Raj tested multiple prompting strategies for LLM ideation across several models and cell biology topics, finding that simply asking for non-obvious ideas worked best, with having Claude critique its default ideas boosting research inspiration the most.

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