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prompt engineer en · NOUN

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1. (neologism, qualifier:artificial intelligence) Someone who designs prompts to be given to an artificial intelligence.
   • Some pundits are proclaiming that we will need to train humans in how to write good prompts, for which they will have the vaunted title of a prompt designer or prompt engineer. 2022 December 29, Lance Eliot, “Twenty-Five Eye-Opening 2023 Predictions About Generative AI And ChatGPT Including A Splash Of AI Ethics And AI Law Tossed In”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2023:
   • The primary role of an AI specialist will require linguistic skills to show, not just tell, the GPT-3 engines how to accomplish a task. Showing, for example, involves working on the context of the input. This new task is named prompt engineering. A prompt engineer has quite a future in AI! 2022 March, Denis Rothman, Antonio Gulli, Transformers for Natural Language Processing, Packt Publishing, page 17:
   • An online marketplace called Promptbase has already sprung up, where prompt engineers can sell their carefully crafted instructions for image-generation tools such as Midjourney. 2022 December 13, Tim Bradshaw, “Is becoming a ‘prompt engineer’ the way to save your job from AI?”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2023:
   • With each request, [Riley] Goodside said, the prompt engineer should be instilling in the AI a kind of "persona" — a specific character capable of winnowing down hundreds of billions of potential solutions and identifying the right response. 2023 February 25, Drew Harwell, “Prompt engineers can make ChatGPT and Bing AI do what you want”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2023:
   • [Simon] Willison spoke with Day 6 guest host Peter Armstrong about whether skepticism is warranted over how much control prompt engineers have — and whether it's a real science, or just learned intuition. 2023 March 24, Paul Hantiuk, “These engineers are being hired to get the most out of AI tools without coding”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023:

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pl inżynier podpowiedzi (Translations) · es ingeniero de instrucción (Translations) · es ingeniero en instrucciones (Translations)