Meaning of prompt engineer | Babel Free

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Someone who designs prompts to be given to an artificial intelligence.

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“The primary role of an AI specialist will require⟳ linguistic skills to show⟳, not just tell⟳, the GPT-3 engines how to accomplish a task. Showing, for example, involves working on the context of the input. This new task is named prompt engineering. A prompt engineer has quite a future in AI!”

“An online marketplace called Promptbase has already sprung up, where prompt engineers can sell⟳ their carefully crafted instructions for image-generation tools such as Midjourney.”

“Some pundits are proclaiming that we will need⟳ to train⟳ humans in how to write⟳ good prompts, for which they will have⟳ the vaunted title of a prompt designer or prompt engineer.”

“With each request⟳, [Riley] Goodside said, the prompt engineer should be instilling in the AI a kind of "persona" — a specific character capable of winnowing down hundreds of billions of potential solutions and identifying the right response.”

“[Simon] Willison spoke with Day 6 guest host⟳ Peter Armstrong about whether skepticism is warranted over how much control⟳ prompt engineers have⟳ — and whether it's a real science, or just learned intuition.”

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