Is Prompting an Art?
OpenAI wants to make it easy.
What is the No. 1 skill that a professional can have today?
What is a superpower skill in the world of AI?
Prompting.
Knowing how to write prompts. Reviewing the results, Refining prompts. Rinse and repeat.
A fascinating way to hit gold if you know what you are gunning for.
OpenAI released a GPT builder this week that works on two assumptions:
OpenAI wants to monetise low hanging fruit.
Prompting can be automated.
The GPT builder is basically a prompt builder, with a cool chat interface.
It lets you create “GPTs” that are mini chat windows that let you refine a pre-created AI prompt that’s optimised for results.
Optimised in the most basic ways, really.
Because anyone who spent 15 days writing and experimenting with prompts would do a better job.
Here’s a Legal Editor GPT that we built for fun. We tested this versus TipsyTom’s Power Editor, and you can do the same.
It makes it clear that using AI to do more AI has its limits.
The good thing though is that the GPT builder throws a lot of low-hanging fruit AI startups out of the market (say like, those were indulging in crypto not 12 months ago).
via Alex Smith
Which brings us to the point.
AI will be leveraged best by those who have one of two things:
(a) expertise in another area; or
(b) deep ML/AI expertise built over years.
Either you have to be good at building foundational models, or innovating to leverage them for cutting edge use cases.
If you have neither, it is a long and hard road for you.
But these are early days. Choose well!