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From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty-Carrino.

Today we're revisiting a conversation on the recent artificial intelligence boom

and how it's created a hot market for a new type of job, prompt engineer. It's basically

a chatbot whisperer skilled in eliciting the best responses from these tools.

And they'll likely be needed in lots of different industries from tech to insurance companies.

According to Anton Koroneck, he's an economist at the University of Virginia and the center for

the governance of AI. These generative AI systems, they are going to really revolutionize

how pretty much every company that is engaged in cognitive work is going about their business.

So let's go to the example of the insurance company that you mentioned. I would imagine that

within the next few years, a lot of defunctions for which an insurance company currently has a call

center, maybe automated using some sort of chatbot that builds on generative AI models.

And then you need a prompt engineer who essentially tells the chatbot how to interact with the

customer buying a policy or the customer who has questions about their policy and so on.

What kinds of skills are needed to do this job?

So if you really want to aim for prompt engineer as your job, I think the best preparation is

to spend a lot of time working with these models. And you know, one way of thinking about it,

it's a little bit like when you're working together with another human, over time you get to know

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