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Re:$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs Appears in Red-Hot M... by version_five on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:55AM (#35359046)
"Prompt engineering" is a made up thing. There's not some magic William Gibson prompt cowboy who through some innate intuition can master prompts the way nobody else can.

It's a deterministic model. There's plenty of interesting explainability work, or however you want to frame it, to be done understanding the connection between different prompts and outputs. But it's clearly in the province of real ML researchers who have experience on the area, and will approach it scientifically. 335k for someone good at that is not unusual at all, they have lots of options.

Re:$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs Appears in Red-Hot M... by cameronfraser on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:15PM (#35359331)
Prompt engineering is more prompt chaining which is actively being researched so it is a thing. https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain
Re:$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs Appears in Red-Hot M... by version_five on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:24PM (#35359501)
Point is, there's some black box, lay-version of playing with prompts, and there's a real study of how the prompt affects output by people who understand the workings of the model. Presumably they're hiring for the latter and not some kid with intuition, and therefore the headline is sensational because the story is that a job for a highly educated and specialized scientist pays well.
Re:$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs Appears in Red-Hot M... by EForEndeavour on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:22PM (#35359457)
> It's a deterministic model

What is? Aren't large language models very specifically not deterministic? It's impossible to reliably predict their response to a given prompt until you actually run the prompt, even with the temperature parameter set to zero (and often temperature is higher than zero in practical deployments).