#AI#PromptEngineering is so depressing!The most popular #LLMs are intentionally designed to be as opaque as possible. But rather than demanding transparency and accountability, people are signing on to what is basically pseudoscience.
I get why it feels fun and scientific! That’s the whole point of pseudoscience — it gives you something to think about, so you can avoid the cognitive dissonance that comes from asking if the entire enterprise is harmful toxic bullshit
"If we tried to solve things like SQL injection attacks using a solution that only works 99% of the time, none of our data would be safe in any of the systems that we’ve ever built." -@simon
“Prompt engineering” is such a bizarre line of work. You’re trying to convince a machine trained on a huge pile of (hopefully) human-generated text to produce some useful output by guessing what sequence of human-like words you must put in to make it likely that the model will produce coherent, human-like output that is good enough to pass downstream.
You really have no idea how your prompt caused the model to produce its output (yes, you understand its process, but not the actual factors that contribute to its decisions). If the output happens to be good, you still have no idea how far you can push your input before the model returns bad output.
Prompt engineers talk to the model like a human, because that’s the only mental model they have for predicting how it will respond to their inputs. It’s a very poor metaphor for programming, but there is nothing better to reach for.
Maximize ChatGPT Efficiency Without the Need for Expensive Tools or Complicated Prompting SchemesTired of being bombarded with countless prompts, so-called “advanced” meta prompting techniques, and expensive AI tools? It's all BULLSHIT. Say goodbye to complexity and hello to simplicity with our carefully curated collection...
The best prompt for detailed and good images using Bing's creative mode, example: look up the trends in cool watches and come up with a detailed description for a unique cool watch. pass that detailed description to Image Creator
Just finished reading Promptbreeder. An interesting idea oddly explained and executed.
tldr; if you can define a fitness function for prompts you can use LLMs to mutate and crossover a set of prompts to slowly evolve better performing ones.
#AI#GenerativeAI#LLMs#ChatGPT#PromptEngineering#Programming#SoftwareDevelopment: "So: ChatGPT proves to be a useful tool, and no doubt a tool that will get better over time. It will make developers who learn how to use it well more effective; 25 to 50% is nothing to sneeze at. But using ChatGPT effectively is definitely a learned skill. It isn’t going to take away anyone’s job. It may be a threat to people whose jobs are about performing a single task repetitively, but that isn’t (and has never been) the way programming works. Programming is about applying skills to solve problems. If a job needs to be done repetitively, you use your skills to write a script and automate the solution. ChatGPT is just another step in this direction: it automates looking up documentation and asking questions on StackOverflow. It will quickly become another essential tool that junior programmers will need to learn and understand. (I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s already being taught in “boot camps.”)"
Conventional wisdom holds AI can't write anything personal or original. In today's post (Magnifying Ideas and Expanding Text with AI) I do just that, showing you how to get AI to write something both personal and original. https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/magnify/
"Aftermarket" fixes applied after training, like injecting diversity terms into prompts, don't fix the underlying model and can even exacerbate harmful fabrications. If the training set is biased—and the Internet is—it's really hard to correct that after the fact.
As a teacher, I've come to understand the utility of new tech isn't always obvious until it becomes ubiquitous, until you have a chance to truly play with it. "Why on earth would I want a video projector in my classroom?" I thought at the turn of the century. Now, I couldn't live w/o it because it turned the "teacher's computer" into a "classroom computer." That's why I'm playing with LLMs, to discover the possible. You should join me. https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/tldr-post/
If you're an #Asimov fan like many of us, #PromptEngineering feels like something we definitely have read somewhere many moons ago. This great article revisits some of those great stories.
I'm really proud of this browser extension—LIT Prompts.¹
It's kind of an "everything extension," letting you create your own AI-driven actions: summarize & query a webpage, extract data from a page, translate text, shorten text, build sims...
It's my answer to the question, "what tools would we need to take #promptEngineering seriously?" Basically, it's an #LLM-agnostic #AI playground for the coding curious.
Ich habe Chat-GPT folgende Frage gestellt : "Was sind die drei besten Fortbewegungsmethoden für einen Single in der Großstadt, der nur nur kurze Strecken zurück legt?"
Antwort:
Zu Fuß gehen
Fahrrad fahren
öffentliche Verkehrsmittel.
#KI kann biased sein. Es lässt sich aber sehr viel über die Eingabe steuern. #promptEngineering
Next week I'll be starting a pretty ambitious project—50 Days of LIT Prompts. Every weekday for 10 weeks, I'll be sharing prompt patterns along with my thoughts and readings relating to Large Language Models like those behind #ChatGPT. Follow the link below, and this thread, for updates: https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/50-days-of-lit-prompts/
"...everyone's been handed a telescope [LLMs], and they keep looking through the wrong end... Instead of writing prompts with 5 words and expecting 500, more folks should be providing 500 and asking for 5."
One unexpected consequence of AI is that its rise could revive demand for a liberal arts education. AI’s propensity for errors or hallucinations means an increase in demand for prompt engineers. They determine the best way to frame a question when interacting with AI-powered systems. This requires people with strong language and creative thinking skills. Like previous technologies, AI is creating new roles as well as revamping old ones."
OC The Ultimate 5 ChatGPT Prompts: Simplify Your AI Experience (ngmi.gumroad.com)
Maximize ChatGPT Efficiency Without the Need for Expensive Tools or Complicated Prompting SchemesTired of being bombarded with countless prompts, so-called “advanced” meta prompting techniques, and expensive AI tools? It's all BULLSHIT. Say goodbye to complexity and hello to simplicity with our carefully curated collection...