AI Expert Answers Prompt Engineering Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED

Prompt Engineer Michael Taylor joins WIRED to answers your questions from Twitter about artificial intelligence prompts. What is a prompt engineer and why do companies employ them? What are some general tips to improve the AI prompts we use? Why do AI-generated hands have the wrong number of fingers so often? What is AI “hallucinating?” How long will ChatGPT remember the context of your conversations? These questions and plenty more are answered on Prompt Engineer Support.

0:00 Prompt Engineer Support
0:10 What is prompt engineering?
0:34 Anybody else polite to the AI? Just me?
1:31 Time To Pretend?
2:15 Tips to improve your AI prompts
3:05 Why is AI so bad at drawing hands?
4:15 The weirdest ChatGPT response
4:45 AI hallucinating
5:05 Bias in LLMs
6:12 How long will ChatGPT remember conversation context for?
6:52 Custom settings in ChatGPT
7:37 Why are you an “engineer” exactly?
7:59 Large Language Models and the Human Brain
8:41 What are tokens?
9:31 The best LLM
10:32 Lifechanging
11:37 Prompt Chaining
12:15 How can you automate AI?
12:50 Prompt an LLM to improve the prompt itself
13:11 How long till Prompt Engineering becomes an academic degree?


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[anooooooo-xm]

Wired really be out there leaving this video up and letting this guy get roasted like my grandma's thanksgiving turkey.

[demanorazfly]

If this guy is a prompt engineer then I'm a Youtube comment engineer

[LightningLion]

Yeah, I've worked with big LLM's and as a "prompt engineer" you just try to poke the AI, see if something good comes out and then document it lol.

[britneyc]

Honestly, before looking it up I thought prompt engineering was another way to refer to the people who developed the AI/large language models (i.e like another term for a software developer). If what this guy said at the beginning is the main point of his job, testing different prompts to see what the AI spits out, then would it really fall under engineering? His like an A/B tester/ maybe quality management?

[basicallyphr]

The word engineer used to mean something. Are we plugging that title into every trendy new job? This guy unironically compared what he does to a bridge engineer is insane.

[unicornopia]

"Prompt Writer" or "Prompt Editor" would be more accurate

[sorcery]

7:35 but your not designing the "bridge" you would be more like the person jumping on it to make sure it doesnt fall. that doesnt make you an engineer

[dibbidydoo]

I looked this dude up, this dude is just a marketer, not an engineer at all.

[SecretSquirrelFun]

I’m a word engineer.
I’m being an engineer right now.

[andremassabki]

Okay, I came to a point I just disassociated and started reading the comments 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[aiforculture]

I'm sure Michael's great at what he does (and this isn't about being negative), but as an AI educator myself quite a lot of this was said with a degree of absolutism which I'd suggest really doesn't fit. Each model and each generation of model handles prompts slightly differently - there are not really absolute principles, and even if there were, the whole point of AI is that it wraps around human behaviour. It would be antithetical for these companies to produce tools which required specialised training to use effectively, so with every generation of new tools the landscape of 'prompt engineering' will be entirely different. It's not SEO.

[Tomy_Yon]

If you ask artists in general what is the hardest thing to draw: it's hands. 😊

[lobi]

Just call the job AI Quality Control / AI tester.

I'm sorry but prompt engineers are not 'AI experts' - this is power user knowledge at best

[Dexter]

I microwaved some food before watching this video. I'm a 5-star cyber-chef.

[yits]

This was a poor choice of expert. This guy's background is in growth marketing, and somehow he wrote a textbook for O'Reilly on prompt engineering. I would much rather have an ml scientist explain how to optimize prompts based on how the generative AI model interprets them, than whatever effectively uninformed opinions this guy is sharing.

[Hahahahaaahaahaa]

7:37 When you have to put in a defense for your title in your casual Q&A, that's when you know you don't deserve that title. (I mean...you should have known already but here we are)

[Dinkleslurp]

Constantly referring the the "AI" as "they" instead of "It" makes me feel unwell

[The_RedVIII]

Oh my god, are they actually calling themselves "Prompt Engineers"?? WTF. lol

[billyraybar]

I rather my kid choose any field over ‘Prompt Engineering’.