Love this post, Daniel. I've come across plenty of the same articles you mention here and it'd actually be quite exhausting trying to keep on top of all the 'best prompts' put out there. In fact, it's probably quicker — and far more valuable — just to educate/experiment yourself with the tools out there (just like you said, really).
Hey John, thanks! Happy you found this helpful. I agree: The barrier to entry is so low now that there's no reason not to experiment and find your way around generative AI at your own pace.
ChatGPT and Bing chat can both help one craft prompts for themselves and other AI as well--how meta! 😁 Great point about the term “prompt engineering”. And while I do think that doing it well is a skill, one thing I notice about that choice of words is it that it suggests prompting is primarily a computer science skill. It certainly doesn’t hurt to have computer science knowledge to prompt well, but it also helps to have critical thinking and writing skills. It is, after all, a language program!
Not only can they suggest own prompts, with AutoGPT we can just give them a goal and set the prompting/revision process on autopilot. Soon we can probably outsource the whole "having a life" thing to AI.
Couldn't agree more with you on the prompting vs. science part. You can definitely get better at prompting, but--as I argue in the post--it's a matter of improving how you express yourself rather than some technical proficiency and insider knowledge.
Love this post, Daniel. I've come across plenty of the same articles you mention here and it'd actually be quite exhausting trying to keep on top of all the 'best prompts' put out there. In fact, it's probably quicker — and far more valuable — just to educate/experiment yourself with the tools out there (just like you said, really).
Hey John, thanks! Happy you found this helpful. I agree: The barrier to entry is so low now that there's no reason not to experiment and find your way around generative AI at your own pace.
ChatGPT and Bing chat can both help one craft prompts for themselves and other AI as well--how meta! 😁 Great point about the term “prompt engineering”. And while I do think that doing it well is a skill, one thing I notice about that choice of words is it that it suggests prompting is primarily a computer science skill. It certainly doesn’t hurt to have computer science knowledge to prompt well, but it also helps to have critical thinking and writing skills. It is, after all, a language program!
Indeed!
Not only can they suggest own prompts, with AutoGPT we can just give them a goal and set the prompting/revision process on autopilot. Soon we can probably outsource the whole "having a life" thing to AI.
Couldn't agree more with you on the prompting vs. science part. You can definitely get better at prompting, but--as I argue in the post--it's a matter of improving how you express yourself rather than some technical proficiency and insider knowledge.