The Delicate Art of Prompt Engineering
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The Delicate Art of Prompt Engineering

It is an art form reminiscent of Socrates’ attempt to distill wisdom from Athenian youth, but now, it’s only about extracting coherence from silicon brains.

We formulate questions with the precision of a poet and the desperation of a philosopher in an existential crisis to whisper something sweet into an algorithm’s ear and hope it whispers something profound back - or at least not completely absurd.

It’s like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how strategically you proceed, it could knock over the pieces, poop on the board, and strut around victoriously.




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Olivia Heslinga

Talk AI with me | AI Literacy Consultant, Founder AFGD | Aula fellow

11 个月

The irony may be that prompt engineering could be a sliver of hope for people to start thinking like philosophers thru the effort to extract from an artificial collection of discombobulated ideas and knowledge base that is the internet, we may realize the answers lie within ….

Atique Malik, PhD

President at AIControl LLC

11 个月

So things go back to how they used to be. The priests were the prompt engineers for the Oracle at Delphi. But they were also the interpreters of the cryptic output. Who does that now?

This is the process by which human intelligence will make AI "intelligent" which in turn should help human intelligence to advance its own intelligence. We should all have our own "AI Pal", something we can educate and learn from at the same time.

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