What's the most effective language for using AI?

[jtbell]

According to a recent study, it's Polish!

Out of 26 languages, English is in 6th place.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/...e-language-for-prompting-ai-new-study-reveals

 

[sbrothy]

Hah, I completely misunderstood this one. I was about to answer I heard Lisp was a popular (programming) language but just read that several LLMs seems to have been coded using Rust.

EDIT: Doesn't the OP's question technically belong in the linguistics forum?

 

[jedishrfu]

Did they explain why Polish seemed better than the other languages ?

Is it less ambiguous than English?

Or maybe Reverse Polish notation? :-)

 

[sbrothy]

I'm ready to bet Finnish is the worst!

 

[jedishrfu]

There was a BBC documentary on Daniel Tammet who could quickly learn languages. They put him to the test to learn Icelandic.

After the first week, his tutor said its not going well but by the second week Daniel was interviewed by Icelandic TV and spoke it fluently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet

 

[sbrothy]

The ~14 time world master of GB Scrabble decided for a challenge and studied French for six weeks and then won the French World Scrabble Championship.

I suspect he's on the autistic spectrum somewhere... and if it's a bell curve probably dead in the middle.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...f-french-scrabble-title-does-not-speak-french

I remember him playing the word CHLORODYNE. With 7 letters. Against that you fight in vain.

 

[jtbell]

I'm ready to bet Finnish is the worst!

I haven't seen the full list of languages that they tested, but I suspect they might have skipped Finnish. Besides studying it on my own for several years, I sat in on an intro Finnish course when I was in graduate school. The instructor joked that Finnish grammar has more rules than any other language... even the exceptions have rules!

 

[jtbell]

Aha, now I see the Euronews article has a link to the original paper on arXiv. They did include Finnish. It was in 18th place (out of 26), according to Figure 4(b) on page 6. The Euronews article must have gotten its accuracy percentages by measuring off the bar chart in Figure 4(b). I don't see a table of them in the paper.

 

[robphy]

On a different front...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibberlink

Two AI agents on a phone call realize they’re both AI and switch to a superior audio signal ggwave
Anton Pidkuiko


https://www.gbrl.ai/ (I haven't tried it)

 

[Mark44]

I haven't seen the full list of languages that they tested, but I suspect they might have skipped Finnish.

Once you learn Finnish, you're done...

 

[jedishrfu]

I think it should be Greek in honor of the perennial joke:

I can speak any language except Greek. Why? Because it's all Greek to me.