Prompt Engineer Michael Taylor joins WIRED to answers your questions from Twitter about artificial intelligence prompts. What is a prompt engineer and why do companies employ them? What are some general tips to improve the AI prompts we use? Why do AI-generated hands have the wrong number of fingers so often? What is AI “hallucinating?” How long will ChatGPT remember the context of your conversations? These questions and plenty more are answered on Prompt Engineer Support.
0:00 Prompt Engineer Support
0:10 What is prompt engineering?
0:34 Anybody else polite to the AI? Just me?
1:31 Time To Pretend?
2:15 Tips to improve your AI prompts
3:05 Why is AI so bad at drawing hands?
4:15 The weirdest ChatGPT response
4:45 AI hallucinating
5:05 Bias in LLMs
6:12 How long will ChatGPT remember conversation context for?
6:52 Custom settings in ChatGPT
7:37 Why are you an “engineer” exactly?
7:59 Large Language Models and the Human Brain
8:41 What are tokens?
9:31 The best LLM
10:32 Lifechanging
11:37 Prompt Chaining
12:15 How can you automate AI?
12:50 Prompt an LLM to improve the prompt itself
13:11 How long till Prompt Engineering becomes an academic degree?
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47 comments
ChatGPT is the reason we lost all our reddit apps!!!!!
If this guy is a prompt engineer then I'm a Microsoft engineer.
hey – interesting vid but some of the info's a bit outdated now! especially around context length. most ais still have limited memory but jenova ai can actually handle unlimited chat history using RAG. same tech that lets us upload unlimited files too
also the part about the "best LLM" is kinda funny – there's no single best model anymore. diff models excel at diff things. that's why we built our model router to automatically pick the best AI for each task (like claude 3.5 for coding, gemini 1.5 for math etc)
just wanted to share since the landscape's changed quite a bit since july! 🤓
Its a full time job????
Hi i am new here and I am a big fan of your video
bro is the enemy
I love the intense cope at the end when he suggests that we'll always need prompt engineers. Buddy, we don't even need them right now.
Can't believe such videos only get 160k views when videos about Jennie or Megan Thee get over a million views
0:40 I also acted polite to AI, especially ChatGPT because whenever I need someone’s help, I always say “please” and once I received the response, I thanked them.
Woke engineer 🤣🤪😂💯👎👎👎
Maybe get AI to analyze this video
Someone who knows about prompt engineering calling themselves a prompt engineer would be akin to someone who knows about social engineering calling themselves a "social engineer." Neither are a full school of study on their own, or profession, they're just tools that can be adapted for a range of uses.
I am a system prompt engineer, so I am not that familiar with prompts for ChatGPT, but I think he is generally correct. I am not sure why he is being criticized.
Calling this engineering would be pathetic, if it wasn't so dystopian.
Hello and welcome to my TED talk. I'm a professional Youtube Search Engineer. For the last ten years I have search for thousands of cat videos on Youtube and found and watched those videos.
There are three things that are hard to make look good in line illustration: hands, cotton wool balls and clear plastic bags. I was given the task of drawing a hand reaching into a bag of cotton wool balls for a drug-store company's packaging.
"LeBron James went to the Miami." – what a great sentence
I'm an "impromptu" engineer
There's a lot more nuance to it than the commenters are assuming. In many cases you're targeting specific weaknesses, trying to anticipate potential user intent (including negative intent), different types of reasoning, etc. It requires a great deal of thought to generate meaningful data. If you think it's simple, write a prompt that causes an AI to refuse to engage with that prompt due to safety issues when there actually aren't any safety issues. It's not easy. He just doesn't go into much detail on practical A/B testing.
Do you guys feel the same way about Data Engineers?
That its really not engineering and the word was misused
Everyone is so mad about this dude's job title lol
After watching this video, I learnt that I'm a prompt engineer 😂
oh shut up man, engineer really?
hold "3" down on PC to make him jork it
(and by that I mean dapenits)
LLM's aren't bad at fingers because they "don't understand the world yet". They are bad at fingers because artists don't always paint fingers in the same position and it is pasting fingers onto the hand. An LLM will never "understand the world" because that isn't what it does – it just says "This comes after that". If you want something that replicates the process of intelligence and can understand and generalise patterns, that's a Neural Network, not a large language model.
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I think this ir probably the first time I've seen a guest in Tech Support being roasted like this
Prompt Engineer? Come on
** works or capitalising things works better.
ok guys, I'm an engineer at everything now, I'm a life engineer or smth
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This guy looks chilled, but with high blood pressure at the same time.
Ed Zitron seems more and more correct everyday.
This is more like software tester
This is actually quite good/useful but people laughing about how he is not an engineer or stuff being the ignorative folk they sadly are. Its good content, and also important info. But nah people rather make fun of him to feel better. I guess thats laughably funny xd
so , yann lecun, andrew ng, yashuo are a joke to you ?
I’m a Software Engineer with a Computer Engineering degree, and I still remember when people (including me) were not convinced that “Social Media Writer/Specialist” should be a real job, and I understand why people feel the same about Prompt Engineering.
Prompt Engineering is a real thing, specially, if you’re building GenAI based apps, then you’d really want to “engineer” the prompt to get the best of GenAI in a reliable and efficient manner.
Nobody said he was a “prompt engineer” title says he is an engineer”AI expert”
"prompt engineer" what a funny way the say "button pusher"🤣🤣🤣
If the AI was any good we wouldn’t need prompt engineers.
Engineer is somebody that makes a plane fly, a CPU or a Bridge that doesn’t fall. This is a joke.
aka how to google
Everyone watching Ai generated Person talking about Ai is ironically scary
I shall too be a chief prompt officer when I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not then feel ashamed.
he's not an engineer just like AI artists aren't artists at all 💀
Loved Michael's explanation to all the questions!
I'M PROOMPTING
i straight up just paused the video to read the comments
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