Prompt Engineer: Talking to Chatbots Is Now a $200K Job
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:27.0 | Welcome to Techn News Briefing. It's Friday, December 1st. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.0 | If you've been scrolling through job search sites, you may have noticed a growing number of postings for the role of Prompt Engineer. |
| 0:47.0 | That's someone who writes prompts that go into a generative AI chatbot like ChatGPTPT or Google's Bard to extract the best information. |
| 0:56.5 | Think AI Whisper. |
| 0:58.6 | Our senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern applied for a prompt engineer position and she'll join us later to |
| 1:05.0 | tell us what that was like and if she ultimately got the job or not. |
| 1:20.0 | But starting with some headlines, Tesla has delivered its first cyber truck pick-ups to customers. Here's CEO Elon Musk at the event yesterday. |
| 1:22.8 | These are the actual owners. |
| 1:24.1 | We're heading over production cyber trucks |
| 1:26.4 | to their actual owners. |
| 1:27.4 | Thank you for buying cyber truck. |
| 1:29.9 | The deliveries came after a two-year delay, but the customers get what was touted at the truck's |
| 1:34.8 | unveiling four years ago. The entry-level model starts at about $61,000. That's roughly $21,000 more than was previously specified. |
| 1:45.0 | It will also sell two other high-end versions, the most expensive starting at nearly 100K. |
| 1:51.2 | For the battery range, the cyber truck can travel up to 340 miles on a single charge. |
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