Albert Phelps is a full time prompt engineer or as
he describes it, an A I whisperer. I
sat down with him to understand what's behind this increasingly
coveted role that can pay up to six figures.
So we're saying, you know, you're a highly
creative and talented journalist working for Bloomberg News. Thank
you. And you know, create an introduction to
an article on Prompt Engineering in the House Bloomberg Town
. It's not got the kind of clean prose of
Bloomberg, but it's a bit flowery. I'd say
with the rise of large language models like GPT three
and GPT four. Demand for a new kind of
AI job is also growing prompt engineers spend their day
coaxing the A I to produce better results and help
companies train their workforce to harness the tools. The
role can pay as much as$335,000 a year.
And for many, it doesn't even require a degree
in computer engineering or advanced coding skills. I'd love
to see how you spend your day. Um Could
you maybe build me a demo of a Bloomberg editor
, let's say, absolutely. Let's go and do
that. Ok. Open a I's consumer facing tool
. Chat GP T is pre prompted. It's set
up to be a helpful assistant to be a professional
prompt engineer. You have to get into the guts
of the large language model that means changing the default
prompt. This is the chat, the open A
I playground. So this is a more advanced,
more neutral, more powerful customizable version of what you
see when you load up chat GPT. Yeah,
exactly What we're going to look to do is help
you write some interesting content around different prompt engineering techniques
. So this is you're making a a sort of
helpful assistant for me to write a story about prompt
engineering as a Bloomberg journalist. Yes, exactly.
Yeah. A seemingly semi mystifying technique. Prompt engineering
is an action packed interface between human creativity and A
is data crunching power. Yeah, it's making me
a bit sick. I think so. I think
so. I think there's more work that we need
to do. There are a few tips and tricks
that Albert uses to improve his results, change the
temperature or the randomness of the output. Tell it
to take things step by step and feed it a
previously written article as an example. After 30 minutes
of work, we didn't quite manage to replace my
editor with A I. But the responses did get
more useful as Albert added more context and instructions.
One thing that I probably haven't done a lot of
here is actually treating this as a dialogue is actually
a really useful way of, of getting better results
. OK. We're getting somewhere now. There's a
, there's a germ of an idea. That's interesting
. Albert says, Prompt Engineering has turned the English
language into a programming language. He's had no technical
education or programming experience. In fact, he studied
history at university before starting his career as a consultant
. He says his non scientific background makes him more
, not less qualified to wrangle A I tools when
it comes to fearing this technology, replacing our jobs
, he's not as concerned. And when will my
editor just be G BT type model that we've developed
together? II, I would probably think of it
the other way around. I think we as humans
actually might become more like the editor will outline what
we want the model to do. We'll give it
some test cases, we'll give it some examples and
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