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Don't pretend that it's already a thing.
by jstx1 4y ago
Don't pretend that it's already a thing.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y agoThis thought could be expanded, considering that it's enough of "a thing" for people to have created a Wikipedia page. (It's hard to even respond with anything relevant to keep the discussion going. This phrasing of "don't pretend" is needlessly reductive.)
- logicalmonster 4y agoIs it not? I wonder how long it's going to take for recruiters to be asking for 5-10 years of experience in prompt engineering.
- jstx1 4y agoDo recruiters ask you how good your Googling skills are now? They don’t, and you need to have really high expectations of the “LLM+chat” paradigm to think that it will be as useful and prevalent as search is now.
- yunwal 4y agoGoogle is an end-user product, LLMs are not inherently an end-user product. You're talking specifically about chatGPT, but GPT-3 isn't meant for end-users, and can be used in many other products besides chatGPT. I'm still not necessarily sold on it as it's own profession, since I think long term the goal of these models is to interpret natural language well enough that anyone can use them, but I still think this is TBD.
- RGamma 4y agoIf it's in the business rags, it is. Soon there'll be prompt engineering evangelists, prompt engineering frameworks, prompt engineering <X> specialists, promp engineering wikis, prompt engineering conventions, prompt engineering courses and schools, etc. And probably also a crypto version of all that. /s Just... try to enjoy this fun ride through clown world.
- jstx1 4y agoI don't know, I think it's too soon to tell whether it will go even that far.
- anonzzzies 4y agoPeople are already writing get rich quick books etc about it, so unfortunately…
- jstx1 4y agoThat's a low bar though, there have been bs books about pretty much anything.
- anonzzzies 4y agoAgreed. Now we wait for the get rich quick prompt-prompt writers ‘be a prompt engineer for a low 19.99$/month; AI writes your prompts’. Which is in fact trivial as gpt3/chatgpt are already used to write prompts for other systems AND for themselves with good results (proving what a nonsense ‘job’ this is already).
- RGamma 4y agoForgot the /s. It is necessary these days.
- anonzzzies 4y agoOr that it will or should be a thing. If you are not talking about embedding, fine tuning, retraining, changing or making models yourself, prompt ‘engineering’ is a trivial, boring, often time consuming exercise available to anyone who can, you know, use natural language. If you read enough ‘ways’ a specific model (version/training/fine tuning) can be ‘told’ what to do and then spend enough time subtly changing your writing and testing prompts for your goal, you can achieve whatever is good to excellent results for that model, mostly (models like chatgpt, even for the ‘experts in prompting’ quite often does things the prompt explicitly told it not to do). There is no engineering (scientific process in building something) involved and besides being articulate, there is also mostly no skill outside patience involved.