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Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering

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Science, Innovation, Business, Entrepreneurship, Culture, Disruption, Software Eating The World, Technology

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

With every new technology, some jobs are lost while others are gained. People often focus on the former, but in this episode we chose to highlight the latter – a highly creative role that emerges alongside AI: the prompt engineer. Until AI can close the loop of its own, each tool still requires a set of prompts. Just like a composer feeds an instrument the notes to play, a prompt engineer feeds an AI a map of what to produce. And if we know anything from music it’s that composing great music takes great skill! In this episode we explore the emerging importance of prompting with Guy Parsons, the early learnings of how to do it effectively, and where this field might be going. Will the prompt engineer be more like the highly sought after DevOps engineer, or a proficiency like Excel that you find on every resume? Listen in to hear Guy’s take.

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If you think about the next layer, is it's still quite hard to describe things with words.

0:05.0

Designers, when they do work for clients, like it's one of their pet peeves because clients don't like it,

0:10.0

but they can't explain why.

0:17.0

With every new technology some jobs are lost while others are gained. And while people often focus on the former, in this episode we're highlighting the latter,

0:21.0

a highly creative role that emerges alongside AI, the prompt engineer.

0:26.0

Until AI can close the loop of its own, each tool still requires a set of prompts.

0:31.0

And just like a composer feeds an instrument instrument a set of notes to play, a

0:34.7

prompt engineer feeds the AI a map of what to produce. And if we know anything from

0:39.5

music, it's that composing great music takes great skill.

0:43.0

So in this episode we dive into the emerging importance of prompting,

0:46.0

the early learnings and how to do it effectively,

0:48.2

and also where this field might be heading.

0:50.8

And we do so with Guy Parsons.

0:53.0

Guy has been an early mover on the text image AI space,

0:56.0

having written the Dolly 2 prompt book in July of last year.

0:59.0

So will the prompt engineer be more like the highly sought-after

1:02.0

Dev-ops engineer or a proficiency like

1:04.3

Excel that you find on every resume. Listen in to hear guys take. By the way, we're thinking

1:10.0

of running a prompt competition coming out. So if you think you have what it takes email

1:13.7

us at pod pitches at a six-cency.com with a subject prompt engineer. As a reminder

1:19.5

the content here is for informational purposes only should should not be taken as legal, business,

1:23.8

tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security and is not directed at

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