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Why You (Probably) Shouldn't Become a Prompt Engineer
Plus ChatGPT vs. Bard -- the great debate!
Nathaniel Whittemore
May 15, 2023
Welcome to The AI Breakdown, the most interesting & important news and conversations in AI.
First, the News:
Leaked documents suggest Amazon is working on a Jetsons-like home robot
The EU’s AI Act would have huge penalties for open source developers and host platforms that didn’t go through a strict process
OpenAI is rolling Browse features out to all ChatGPT Plus users this week. The Bard effect?
We’re rolling out web browsing and Plugins to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week! Moving from alpha to beta, they allow ChatGPT to access the internet and to use 70+ third-party plugins. help.openai.com/en/articles/68…
— OpenAI (@OpenAI)
9:00 PM • May 12, 2023
The Most Interesting Discussion
In the last couple weeks, there has been quite a growing discussion about whether “Prompt Engineering” is really going to be a job in the long term.
On the one side are those who think that understanding how to work with generative AI tools is going to be a key skillset moving forward. On the other are those who believe that AI will increasingly optimize its own prompting. One of the proponents of that view is a team member at OpenAI:
Hot take 🔥: you should not become a prompt engineer, even if someone paid you to be one.
Here’s why 🧵
— Logan.GPT (@OfficialLoganK)
3:54 PM • May 6, 2023
Today we got some research from Microsoft about — you guessed it — a new prompt optimization method called “Automatic Prompt Optimization.”
Microsoft researchers have developed a new prompt optimization method called Automatic Prompt Optimisation (APO) to solve the trial-and-error method when developing prompts.
#AI#GenerativeAI#Microsoft#LLM#Prompts
— Iván L. Gimeno (@ivanlopezgimeno)
5:21 PM • May 15, 2023
The instinct to adapt to the AI era is right, but is “prompt engineering” just an intermediate step?
A Great Resource
If you’re exhausted by a new list everyday that says “HERE ARE THE 1000 AI TOOLS THAT LAUNCHED SINCE YESTERDAY,” the fine folks at The Neuron have curated it down to about 20 essentials across a variety of the big categories. Well worth the time.
You don't need 1,000 AI tools. You need the ones that actually work.
We spent the last weeks trying every tool we can find to find the ones you should actually pay attention to.
Here are the first 20 tools we recommend and why:
— Pete (@nonmayorpete)
1:05 PM • May 15, 2023
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Signing off from the future’s past - NLW