Helen Edwards is a Co-Founder of Artificiality. She previously co-founded Intelligentsia.ai (acquired by Atlantic Media) and worked at Meridian Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric, Quartz, and Transpower.
This research opens up vast possibilities for AI's role in solving complex problems but also underscores the importance of understanding and this emergent behavior especially as we head towards a world of multimodal models and agentic AI.
ChatGPT and similar tools can significantly alter workflows by changing how we match tasks with skills. Think of a two-by-two matrix: on one axis, you have the skill needed for a task; on the other, the worker's proficiency level.
Developing the skill to craft effective prompts is a critical aspect of working with generative AI. It's about understanding what you want, knowing how to articulate that desire in a way the machine understands, and strategically using the AI's strengths to your advantage.
How to go beyond prompting and develop your conversational AI skills. Now, as more AI collaboration is designed inside of applications, do you still need to learn how to prompt? If you want to get the most out of AI, we would say, yes.
Sensemaking is going to change. AI will allow us to find story-less, a-narrative yet meaningful correlations. Our minds will have to be open to a new kind of awe: that which a machine can make sense of that we cannot.
This research shows how flexible these models are: meta-prompting aids in decomposing complex tasks, engages distinct expertise, adopting a computational bias when using code in real-time which further enhances performance, then seamlessly integrates the varied outputs.
The introduction of Gemini 1.5 Pro's ability to handle unprecedented context lengths, its superior performance compared to its predecessors, and the sustained relevance of power laws in its design underscore the breadth and depth of Google's long term capabilities.
By understanding the principles behind the evolving field of prompt engineering, we can craft better queries and engage more effectively with AI. They're insights we can all use to sharpen our own interactions with AI, even if we're not writing the code ourselves.
