AI's and Prompt Engineering - the new way of working?
Over the summer break I have been reading and watching a lot of videos on YouTube about Chat-GPT and some of the amazing things people are playing around with.?It’s fascinating seeing where the various content is heading around this advancement in AI.?Some camps are running for the hills, and others are embracing AI as a helpful personal assistant that could make life a lot more productive.?As we continue to see advancements in AI, it's becoming clear that the way we work and collaborate with one another is changing. Personally I am on the “let’s totally embrace this” side of the argument.?In particular one area that stands out to me is the concept of "prompt engineering” and how this will become more of a trend over the years ahead.
If you haven’t heard what this new buzz-word is, let me do my best to articulate it.?Prompt engineering is the process of designing systems, interfaces, and workflows that make it easy for people to collaborate with AI. By providing clear instructions and guidelines, we can minimise confusion and errors and maximise the productivity of human-AI outputs.
One example of this in practice is the use of Chat-GPT, which is a type of AI language model that can assist with tasks such as writing emails, reports, and even composing social media posts (who knows maybe I used Chat-GPT to help me write this.. maybe I didn’t…shout me a beer and I will let you know). Technology like this gives you the ability to automate routine tasks and an AI assistant can help you get on with a lot more productive work.
I have also been chatting to a few of the engineers in my team who have shared how innovation like this is helping them simplify code, code in languages they don’t completely know just yet, and in general help teach them what to improve on or adjust. One even developed instructions to upgrade cloud environments played back to them as a 16 bar rap in the style of Snoop Dogg.?And yes, it was scarily correct.
However, sometimes Chat-GPT and other similar AI’s get the inputs wrong or need help from us to get the outcome even more efficient, which is where prompt engineering as a practice is starting out.?You can read more here on it if you like (https://learnprompting.org/).
I have had a play, and within a matter of seconds a tool like this can help me generate an Ansible playbook to build a virtual machine into any cloud platform I like (Datacom Cloud included).?It’s pretty dangerous when I will be able to start coding into our cloud with zero coding background.?I have promised my team I won’t, so collective blood pressures have been reduced. Check out the simple example below:
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But, if I do want to know more so I can actually learn what it is doing, you can ask Chat-GPT to explain what it's done (see below).
Overall, the popularity and progress of AI I think will move towards us learning more around prompt engineering which will enable people to work more efficiently and productively together with an AI assistant. Embracing this, rather than fearing it.
If you haven’t had a play with Chat-GPT and other AI-powered systems they are super easy (warning: some of the image ones are nightmare fuel like the picture Dall-E 2 made for this article) but in general they help people to minimise errors and confusion, and maximise productivity.
It's definitely something to keep an eye on as it continues to shape the future of work. Welcome to 2023 everyone!
Now, more importantly… did I write this post?
The Busy Bee of BizDev | 20+ years of "knocking on doors" developing project & sales process, developing careers and creating content.
2 年Well worth a read... https://kontent.ai/blog/content-strategy-using-chatgpt-with-a-headless-cms/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=pi_campaign_id%3D6820
The Busy Bee of BizDev | 20+ years of "knocking on doors" developing project & sales process, developing careers and creating content.
2 年Very insightful, I'm talking to a lot of folks not just about Ai but composable architecture that makes the choosing the right Ai possible.
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2 年Ross Delaney interesting read and love how it can read code to help provide educational/instructional information for people to learn (loving prompt engineering). Things to get clearer on is around security/privacy if Chat-GPT?its reading your scripts...does it store or collect sensitive information / IP in the process? Imagine the infromation / potential IP that could be accessed....I am sure this has safeguards but could become a new surface attack area for those hackers. Dont think I am being pessimistic here, I think this is awesome and the future, as an industry we need to ensure the right safeguards and practices are embedded, clarified and tested to ensure IP is protected from the wrong people.
Vice President EMEA | Next Gen Platform at Salesforce
2 年Nice piece Ross. Is it wrong that my first thought after playing with ChatGPT was how it would bail me out when trying to help the kids with their school work? Inevitably what happened when I showed it to them was a rapid slide into asking it to create ‘funny’ (they’re 8 and 5 so you can guess the direction!) songs / jokes which was pretty amusing. The technology is certainly powerful, interestingly my kids thought it was cool but they weren’t blown away, I think powerful technology is just what they expect these days so resistance from future generations is likely to be far less of a factor to adoption. And by the way, you definitely didn’t write it, do I win a beer?
CEO @ ARCANUM AI | SMB Back Office Automation
2 年As often is the case with AI, once the business use case gets people excited, the next challenge is integration..