[goldfeld]

As for me, I don't think it's only that AI needs more training, but needs better trained users, or that we need to train at it to produce good results. I'm fast on becoming a pro-prompter and for that need to be trained on good requests. Anyone can dm me at /r/goldfeld and I'll take AI artwork commissions for real cheap, to train on real stuff.

I think prompting may become a general skill superior in status to the early divide between those who could and could not use a PC/the web(which I lived through in the 90's).

[heavyset_go]

Every model will respond to prompts differently, and the "same" model might respond differently after retraining.

Google-fu was useful because there was consistent syntax and semantics that returned good search results. That's no longer the case, and that might have something to do with ML model integration with Google's search product.

I'm sure you could figure out a way to train models such that they share a common method/syntax to "summon" accurate answers from the ML oracles. I could see that being somewhat useful, but it looks like those that are commercializing AI products that interact with humans are looking for natural language interfaces, and not a specialized query grammar.

[goldfeld]

But even basic things that become intuitive may work rqually well fpr any model, like: I am being too specific about this part of my request? should I loosen up the constraints here to get better width at another part where I can be prosaic? should I be poetic? functional? phenomenological? A prompt is a work of pure composition and composition is always hard. I see much philosophy and existentialism for the future.

[unlikelymordant]

I think there was a period where "being good at searching" and using search engines was definetely a skill, but that time has mostly passed. I see the same thing happening with "prompt engineering", i cant see it being a long term skill as the models improve or just start assuming they know what you want.

[goldfeld]

Searching or prompting, there will always be more people who don't know exactly how they want what they want than people who do, so guessing those out will be a true breakthrough in psychology if AI does it!

[kilgnad]

They can train an AI to turn bad prompts into good prompts.

[redeux]

I agree. I actually had a good chuckle at an article I read recently calling for a DSL for prompt generation, since the current state is templating. Seems obvious to me that the solution is AI generated prompts. I even tested this with ChatGPT by feeding it some prompts from an awesome-prompts repo and it worked fairly well.

[swyx]

which article please?