Ep 1 - The Common Sense of Prompt Engineering and The Future of AI

All right, welcome back, Ira, to who knows what episode this is. I don't know. A lot of these get corrupted and lost.And with all this A.I., you know, we think that we'd have this down in by now. But regardless, we're back, man. How are you?I'm doing well. And we'll look back at those times and we'll say, you remember all that now B roll that used to be a roll. This is B roll.Yeah. This is B roll. So I don't know if this will get released or not.So I have a question off the bat. You came across a pretty interesting study on prompt engineering. It's all the rage here, right?So fill me in on that, man. What did you find? Yeah, so I mean, it was it was a variety of different articles and other topics that I was reading about it.But prompt engineering, I mean, I don't think it's really a new thing. I mean, it's it's kind of like the evolution of Googling. But prompt engineering is is really becoming a major topic.I would even say above and beyond this whole A.I. craze of chat GPT and prompt engineering. What it is at the core is, you know, that if you've played around with the tool and if you haven't definitely recommend it, you know, chat GPT or any of these these tools is the better prompt, better thing.You can give it to to query on, to respond to and these kinds of things, the better response you get. And there is a bit of an art to understanding how you can input this stuff. And it's it's less about the tool and it's more about the subject matter.But if you're an expert or a pretty proficient person in the in the topic, you can really make some really good prompts and get some solid information back, particularly if you're giving it some context. So prompt engineering is, I think, one of the really big things that will continue to really maybe even outpace some of the buzz happening with just the general A.I. topic.Yeah, I agree. But at what point is this common sense? Yeah, I mean, it's like it's it's getting ridiculous.I see the the LinkedIn carousels like how to. And I'm like, this is common sense. It's a conversation like I'm just blown away that like, what were these people using to find their information before?How are they Googling things before? Like, I don't know, maybe just because I'm in that field. But at some point, it's got to be common sense that if you want to get information, it's almost like having a conversation with somebody like, yeah, maybe maybe there's an art to it that I'm just not seeing.But but Trevor, and this is even, I think, what separates it on LinkedIn or Facebook or wherever you're seeing these carousels. But, you know, the idea of prompt engineering isn't just asking the right question. I think it's also giving it the context, because if you're just asking it the question, OK, I mean, that is good.That's powerful. But if you provide it, say, the transcript of this video, right? And maybe all the other videos that we've done.And then you ask it various questions about that in context with other resources that are out there to get some sort of solid output. I think that's really where the value comes in. So the prompt engineering is as much about giving the tool, giving the platform, whatever it may be, the the research, the background, what you want to pull from, plus the other resources you want to pull from, plus asking the questions in the format that you want and to get that output.It's like programming without programming. You don't necessarily need to have the you don't have to need to know how to do like Python or C or any of these other programming languages. But I think you need to think a little bit like a programmer if you want that kind of output.But that makes sense. Do you think it's more about the prompt or do you think it's about the individuals just don't really know what they want? Right.Because like, here's a great example. If I let's just assume you and I are going to lunch, right? I look at this and I'm like, Ira, where do you want to go to lunch?That's kind of like a basic prompt. I'm going to get a pretty, you know, generic output. But then if I know that, you know, you love Mexican food and you love it and I want to kind of see, I'm going to I'm going to kind of probe you with some context around that.Right. So I think that's the bigger the bigger issue is that because if I want to really get some research, right, let's just say I want to find some research on, you know, whatever it may be. I'm probably not just going to go put a basic prompt in and expect it to read my mind.Maybe this is common sense. Maybe I'm way off base. I'd love to know what people think about this.But I mean, I think what Chats GPT is shown in all these other tools is really it's scary. It's just the lack of like, I think it's lack of common sense. It might sound harsh, but like, I don't know.But these people are paying big salaries. What was the number that you threw out? Like two hundred and fifty grand or something?Yeah. The the salary of a solid prompt engineer. Some...