prompt engineer

English

Noun

prompt engineer (plural prompt engineers)

1. (artificial intelligence, technology, neologism) Someone who designs prompts to be given to an artificial intelligence. [from 2022]
   • 2022 March, Denis Rothman, Antonio Gulli, Transformers for Natural Language Processing, Packt Publishing, page 17:

     The primary role of an AI specialist will require linguistic skills to show, not just tell, the GPT-3 engines how to accomplish a task. Showing, for example, involves working on the context of the input. This new task is named prompt engineering. A prompt engineer has quite a future in AI!

   • 2022 December 13, Tim Bradshaw, “Is becoming a ‘prompt engineer’ the way to save your job from AI?”, in Financial Times‎^[1], London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 March 2023:

     An online marketplace called Promptbase has already sprung up, where prompt engineers can sell their carefully crafted instructions for image-generation tools such as Midjourney.

   • 2022 December 29, Lance Eliot, “Twenty-Five Eye-Opening 2023 Predictions About Generative AI And ChatGPT Including A Splash Of AI Ethics And AI Law Tossed In”, in Forbes‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-23:

     Some pundits are proclaiming that we will need to train humans in how to write good prompts, for which they will have the vaunted title of a prompt designer or prompt engineer.

   • 2023 February 25, Drew Harwell, “Prompt engineers can make ChatGPT and Bing AI do what you want”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-24:

     With each request, [Riley] Goodside said, the prompt engineer should be instilling in the AI a kind of "persona" — a specific character capable of winnowing down hundreds of billions of potential solutions and identifying the right response.

   • 2023 March 24, Paul Hantiuk, “These engineers are being hired to get the most out of AI tools without coding”, in CBC News‎^[4], archived from the original on 2023-03-25:

     [Simon] Willison spoke with Day 6 guest host Peter Armstrong about whether skepticism is warranted over how much control prompt engineers have — and whether it's a real science, or just learned intuition.

Related terms

• prompt engineering

Further reading

• Prompt engineer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia