The World Economic Forum has identified AI prompt engineer as an emerging job category created by generative AI. Among knowledge required to be a successful prompt engineer is an understanding of how Large Language Models work. In this talk I suggest that the most important knowledge required by a successful prompt engineer into an uncertain future comes from the humanities. The details of the specific AIs may change – OpenAI’s ChatGPT is all the rage now but how might the dominant AI of 2030 differ from that? The one thing we can be moderately confident about is the enduring importance of being able to formulate problems in a way the prompt AI to tell us what we need to know. I offer some pointers from my experience doing this.
Time: 15:00-16:30, September 6th, 2023
Location: 202, School of Entrepreneurship and Management
Inviter: Yawen Zou, Assistant Professor of the Institute of Humanities
Speaker: Nicholas Agar, Professor of Applied Ethics at The University of Waikato, New Zealand.