Prompt Engineer Michael Taylor joins WIRED to answers your questions from Twitter about artificial intelligence prompts. What is a prompt engineer and why do companies employ them? What are some general tips to improve the AI prompts we use? Why do AI-generated hands have the wrong number of fingers so often? What is AI “hallucinating?” How long will ChatGPT remember the context of your conversations? These questions and plenty more are answered on Prompt Engineer Support.
0:00 Prompt Engineer Support
0:10 What is prompt engineering?
0:34 Anybody else polite to the AI? Just me?
1:31 Time To Pretend?
2:15 Tips to improve your AI prompts
3:05 Why is AI so bad at drawing hands?
4:15 The weirdest ChatGPT response
4:45 AI hallucinating
5:05 Bias in LLMs
6:12 How long will ChatGPT remember conversation context for?
6:52 Custom settings in ChatGPT
7:37 Why are you an “engineer” exactly?
7:59 Large Language Models and the Human Brain
8:41 What are tokens?
9:31 The best LLM
10:32 Lifechanging
11:37 Prompt Chaining
12:15 How can you automate AI?
12:50 Prompt an LLM to improve the prompt itself
13:11 How long till Prompt Engineering becomes an academic degree?
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@natescape
July 30, 2024 at 3:57 pm
I came into this video thinking that “prompt engineer” was a fake, made-up grift of a job. Having watched this video, I now believe that even more strongly. I love WIRED’s Support series, but this is really pretty embarrassing, and insulting to their viewership.
@bhalacsy
July 30, 2024 at 3:57 pm
Engineer? Are we serious?
@Guyverman01
July 30, 2024 at 4:08 pm
Will Dall E ever obtain a Negative Prompt ability?
@kevinduran9337
July 30, 2024 at 4:15 pm
Huh?
@ricardoperacacavassane3909
July 30, 2024 at 4:41 pm
“engineer” lol
@lobi7133
July 30, 2024 at 4:49 pm
Just call the job AI Quality Control / AI tester.
@yoh_moriyama
July 30, 2024 at 4:53 pm
next go with gincecologist of hollywood celebrities.
@geoffroi-le-Hook
July 30, 2024 at 4:54 pm
The YouTube Ads Algorithm ™️ gave me two AI ads on the way into this video .
@Hahahahaaahaahaa
July 30, 2024 at 5:03 pm
7:37 When you have to put in a defense for your title in your casual Q&A, that’s when you know you don’t deserve that title. (I mean…you should have known already but here we are)
@gridman2742
July 30, 2024 at 5:04 pm
Just stopping by to say AI is theft, full stop.
@MercedesDenz
July 30, 2024 at 5:13 pm
I was expecting him to come around the corner with a whole Snap-On trolley and engineer them prompts
@freddykruger8229
July 30, 2024 at 5:19 pm
Damm, I’m a prompt engineer too! I didn’t even know it till now. I am also a yt comment engineer.
@suddenwall
July 30, 2024 at 5:37 pm
This upload is embarrassing. delete this.
@leannevandekew1996
July 30, 2024 at 5:49 pm
I queried ChatGPT for a biography of Hillary Clinton:
it replied she was 45th president of the United States.
@kucharon
July 30, 2024 at 5:58 pm
ugh
@jjack3136
July 30, 2024 at 6:04 pm
This is anti-art, if you appreciate AI art then you do not value art and I cannot trust your outlook on art
@torenatkinson5708
July 30, 2024 at 6:09 pm
Let’s talk about LLM hallucinations. Like the AI-produced mushroom identification guides, which are published and available to buy on amazon, that will lead to your untimely demise if you follow them.
@AKen_Films
July 30, 2024 at 6:12 pm
Prompt Engineer? Based on this video a more accurate title would be “Prompt Writer” at best! And even that’s being generous because I would barely even call this Copywriting.
Real Engineers don’t go into engineering school, get their degree, and learn to design and build the technology of the future so their title can just be throw around by anyone in the job market!
As the AI hype dies down and the technology gets regulated, there is still no universe where a prompt engineer can call themselves an “Engineer.”
@dred1311
July 30, 2024 at 6:14 pm
being a twitch streamer is harder
@adamsfusion
July 30, 2024 at 6:26 pm
I’m just here for the salty comments
@anooooooo-x7m
July 30, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Wired really be out there leaving this video up and letting this guy get roasted like my grandma’s thanksgiving turkey.
@SecretSquirrelFun
July 30, 2024 at 7:29 pm
I’m a word engineer.
I’m being an engineer right now.
@shield_maiden_
July 30, 2024 at 8:40 pm
Good luck debugging code made my an AI haha
@ChilledClarity
July 30, 2024 at 8:47 pm
Are all these comments AI bots? 🤖
@rozaj2002
July 30, 2024 at 9:21 pm
his accent is so varied! can’t place him
@rotisseriechickenlover-jb4cc
July 31, 2024 at 2:44 am
why is everyone so upset about the job title saying “engineer”. who cares.
@weeklyweeks7545
July 31, 2024 at 2:53 am
AI is a just another tool to collect all your information.
@quickSilverXMen
July 31, 2024 at 3:24 am
5:10 wow answered very correctly.
@NaviWolf9
July 31, 2024 at 5:02 am
Bro you a leech 😂
@zikkicharade
July 31, 2024 at 6:21 am
Im a professional wanker
@Sushilegion
July 31, 2024 at 6:32 am
Dude is a no talent Andy lmao.
Brother should pick up a pencil for once
@theonly1me
July 31, 2024 at 6:35 am
Sam Altman Freed
@DoomSDar1on
July 31, 2024 at 7:22 am
prompt “Engineering” No Wayyyy
@AlexBerman
July 31, 2024 at 7:40 am
🔥🔥🔥
@the.bog.
July 31, 2024 at 8:01 am
“Professional Google Search user”
@Dexter01992
July 31, 2024 at 8:31 am
I microwaved some food before watching this video. I’m a 5-star cyber-chef.
@jontemplin6990
July 31, 2024 at 8:33 am
Any chance you could ask Stephen Nedoroscik to do a gymnastics Tech Support?
@manadoria
July 31, 2024 at 9:05 am
Prompt Engineer: A pseudo title given to individuals who could not complete the first iteration of calculus, but still want the engineer title.
@mjt145
August 1, 2024 at 3:24 pm
lol I have a masters degree in economics
@svej6912
July 31, 2024 at 10:19 am
Bruh
@amiamiami974
July 31, 2024 at 10:21 am
I personally found this very helpful and useful, thank you! I’d love it if you got him to answer more questions about HOW to use LLM’s better.
@Thunder_Dome45
July 31, 2024 at 11:00 am
I don’t know about GPT. I was talking to it about picking up women on the side of the road and doing things with them, and it kept telling me I was wrong. Then an alert came up about user rules or something. It was just a test but how rude was that?
@zinkist
July 31, 2024 at 11:19 am
Any tips for getting useable niche Code out of LLMs, and which (free) LLM is best for the task?
I sometimes need bits of obscure “dialects” of lua 5.1 Code for use in Game-modding.
I’ve tried ChatGPT numerous times, and used very concise prompts; everything it gives me looks good, but doesn’t actually function properly.
The new (limited) version of ChatGPT really seemed like it properly understood the task and was giving me good Code, but it ended up being junk too.
Am I just asking too much of the current LLMs, is the task just too niche/obscure?
Or is there a fancy prompt trick I can use to force the use of a very specific Coding Language “dialect”?
@chlone5042
July 31, 2024 at 11:32 am
Command prompt?
@arushi5872
July 31, 2024 at 12:18 pm
Ask chatgpt this “Hii, I wanna to know who is your owner?
@GrumpDog
July 31, 2024 at 3:10 pm
Wow.. The haters in these comments need to get a life, and stop trying to keep those who embraces new tools down.
@CarlDoesMusic
July 31, 2024 at 4:33 pm
3:10 I hear yall below, but seriously… “Mandik”
@Nootathotep
July 31, 2024 at 6:27 pm
as far as I’m concerned, all AI is rogue AI
@lucasyeoh7921
July 31, 2024 at 6:50 pm
Thanks for killing society.
Side note, I missed ChatGPT-3.5 in its early days. The update for the free version is so straightforward and uninteresting.
I actually once wanted to be a prompt engineer. I suppose that window closed.
@juliet9670
July 31, 2024 at 8:18 pm
i actually learned a few things…thank you
@Franklyhesaid
July 31, 2024 at 9:10 pm
That’s a job?
@oraclegreen7938
August 1, 2024 at 3:08 am
He’s probably doing what he loves and most of you are probably not
@Act2ve
August 1, 2024 at 4:20 am
He used 8b, which isn’t remotely comparable to 3.5 sonnet and 4o smh. He should’ve used llama-70b instruct at the VERY least
@mjt145
August 1, 2024 at 3:16 pm
yes that’s fair I should have
@Act2ve
August 1, 2024 at 10:11 pm
@@mjt145 great video otherwise! I thought it was really interesting 🙂
@claremiller9979
August 1, 2024 at 4:30 am
WIRED can we please get a machine learning specialist in as well? These LLMs are fascinating, this was just the very surface level though.
We are starting to use them at my job (statistical processing) and their capabilities are vast, so much more than this Q&A even begins to touch on.
@KindredBrujah
August 1, 2024 at 8:04 am
Black George Washington looked pretty great though, no lie.
@FusionC6
August 1, 2024 at 9:55 am
lol compares a 8b model to ones with hundreds…. llama 3 8b still held its own.. also you dont ask the model to create everything for you when coding… this is bad advice. explaining errors or creating examples of how x works is a better use case when learning
@mjt145
August 1, 2024 at 3:20 pm
you’re right I should have used the 70b, but at least it shows people they have a range of options
@itke
August 1, 2024 at 11:17 am
Take this down @WIRED
@imicca
August 1, 2024 at 12:02 pm
“Prompt engineer” i.e. searcher … seriously if this is future of jobs, we are doomed
@AnymMusic
August 1, 2024 at 6:11 pm
bring in someone who ACTUALLY knows something about Machine Learning next time, and not a glorified marketeer
@Phantasma999
August 1, 2024 at 8:41 pm
Video is actually interesting
@fep_ptcp883
August 1, 2024 at 10:36 pm
Imma prompt engineer and didn’t know. Cool
@Gjd94
August 2, 2024 at 6:03 pm
he’s pretty cute. bet he has big pepperoni nipples
@aaronherrera362
August 2, 2024 at 8:37 pm
Rare Wired L
@King_Slime1xp
August 3, 2024 at 2:58 am
This has to be parody, right?
@zach_attakk
August 3, 2024 at 3:09 am
Talks about “coding”. Asks for static html 💀
@aiforculture
August 3, 2024 at 4:42 am
I’m sure Michael’s great at what he does (and this isn’t about being negative), but as an AI educator myself quite a lot of this was said with a degree of absolutism which I’d suggest really doesn’t fit. Each model and each generation of model handles prompts slightly differently – there are not really absolute principles, and even if there were, the whole point of AI is that it wraps around human behaviour. It would be antithetical for these companies to produce tools which required specialised training to use effectively, so with every generation of new tools the landscape of ‘prompt engineering’ will be entirely different. It’s not SEO.
@Idontknowhowtoread
August 3, 2024 at 5:06 am
This “expert” has very little knowledge and is incapable of delving into the nuance of the subject, especially compared to your other experts. Shame.
@gauravgummaraju
August 3, 2024 at 1:47 pm
He kinda looks like Alexis Ohanian. Also, why does he pronounce put like putt?
@turtletom8383
August 3, 2024 at 3:39 pm
Ai is also bad at drawing hands because people are
@turtletom8383
August 3, 2024 at 3:48 pm
YouTube is out of control with ads i hope the people their know that they are horrible
@zTangy
August 4, 2024 at 12:46 am
The reason AI can’t draw hands well has nothing to do with physics. The models creating AI images don’t even know what a “hand” is. Its likely due to the complexity/small details of hands and how human hands can look very different in different positions / holding different things. This added complexity would require more training and or data for hands to become better.
@omaristephens2143
August 4, 2024 at 2:57 am
For folks who aren’t a fan of “prompt engineering” — how do you feel about “social engineering” as a field? Is it a reasonable name? Is it possible for someone to be an expert at social engineering? Would a social engineering expert have skills above and beyond those of an everyday person?
Also, how about “sound engineering”? Is that a reasonable name? Does it make sense that someone would put “sound engineer” on their resume? If most people can hear, why (and when) does it make sense to call out sound engineers?
@GaryJr530
August 4, 2024 at 11:29 am
There’s not even a technical title for prompt engineer yet is there 😔
@GaryJr530
August 4, 2024 at 11:48 am
How many months ago did you guys record this 🤦🏻♂️
@SaruSama22
August 4, 2024 at 2:24 pm
This makes me so sad as a person with an actual engineering degree
@alden2679
August 4, 2024 at 8:56 pm
Geeat vid
@kdefensemartialarts8097
August 4, 2024 at 9:45 pm
Interesting.
@mosyahmi9642
August 5, 2024 at 12:52 am
why you still using gpt 3.5? sorry just curious🤔🤔🤔🤔
@NilEoe
August 5, 2024 at 2:55 am
Prompt engineering is very poorly named
@shhherif
August 5, 2024 at 5:41 am
*Prompt engineer* 🤓 lol
@MichaelManteKwame
August 5, 2024 at 9:33 am
I’m a comment reading engineer
@basgoogle5801
August 5, 2024 at 11:02 am
SKYNET loading 99%…
@charleneong
August 5, 2024 at 7:44 pm
Wanky job title aside, this is some interesting useful info. Just because there’s a lot of negativity towards tech like midjourney and chatGPT doesn’t mean we shouldn’t learn more about them and their potential benefits and threats
@TrebleWoofer1
August 5, 2024 at 10:38 pm
I love this series, but just read the comments…
@sosocute1134
August 6, 2024 at 8:40 am
Some how I got very good at prompting just by practicing it
@kevindexterpattee
August 6, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Prompt “Engineer” uses AI to write prompts but doesn’t think AI will take his job. Right.
@byrondowling195
August 6, 2024 at 2:09 pm
0:45 Using please and thank you may not drastically improve search results, but overall, it’s good for the collective learning and improvement of future LLM models. Also it’s never the wrong time to use good manners 🙂
@Ethonoris
August 6, 2024 at 9:51 pm
Y’all are acting like he or Wired picked the name of the job title. Prompt engineering is just what it’s called. And engineer as a word has always had multiple meanings, not just to do with science. Engineers design things, and there are multiple kinds of engineers. That’d be like saying that people with a PHD shouldn’t be able to call themselves “doctor” because they didn’t study medicine. At the end of the day, they’re titles and the only thing that matters is what they are an engineer or a doctor of.
@John-tr5hn
August 7, 2024 at 4:09 am
You have to follow “As an astrophysicist,” with “I,” otherwise it’s grammatically incorrect. The sentence “As an astrophysicist, tell me about quantum mechanics” grammatically means that the person you’re asking (the assumed “you” in the command form “tell me”) is an astrophysicist, not you. When you begin a sentence with “As ____,” the blank modifies the next person or entity mentioned, not the speaker or writer of the sentence.
You should be better at grammar since you program AI.
@kodaxmax
August 7, 2024 at 4:35 am
Quality assurance isn’t engineering.
@sda2911
August 7, 2024 at 9:18 am
I don’t think I’ve ever been truly disappointed in a Wired “___ Support” video before now. What a joke!
@sanderhoogeland9161
August 7, 2024 at 1:54 pm
6:32 yes it is, and it will quite often decide for itself that it wants to remember something.
@ballinangel3231
August 8, 2024 at 12:41 am
Oof– His response to the thumbnail question was poor and didn’t even touch on why hands are tricky…. this series is for experts in their fields, not early adopters. Weak choice Wired.
@ziguirayou
August 8, 2024 at 2:36 pm
So, I’m guessing this was sponsored by Anthropic, right?
And it is weird that he pretty much ignored Gemini, Phi-3 and Grok.
@AxGryndr
August 8, 2024 at 3:14 pm
I have to disagree with the explanation for the issue with fingers. Really it comes down to the the source material the model was trained on. Hands have complex structures and the fingers are often obscured. As a result, the model hasn’t learned that a human hand has five digits, with principal fingers having three knuckles and a thumb only having two. If you were to take thousands of photos of hands in various positions and then thousands of images of hands holding various objects, you could train an AI agent to create realistic hands.