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AI whisperer

AI whisperer noun: a person with a knack for persuading an artificial intelligence program to produce a desired kind of output.

Noun

AI whisperer (plural AI whisperers)

  1. (informal) A person with a knack for persuading an artificial intelligence program to produce a desired kind of output.
    • Krizhevsky left Google several years later, […] and he has since taken on a bit of a mythical status. (Ferguson called him an “AI whisperer.”)2018 May 9, Andrew J. Hawkins, “Inside Waymo's Strategy to Grow the Best Brains for Self-Driving Cars”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 09 May 2018
    • Prompt Engineer. Also called an “AI whisperer,” a prompt engineer is someone who creates effective prompts for getting the desired results from a language model. This is essentially what you’re learning from this book[2023, Guy Hart-Davis, Killer ChatGPT Prompts: Harness the Power of AI for Success and Profit, John Wiley & Sons, page 41
  2. (informal) One who is skilled with artificial intelligence programs.
    • The Nassir name bought her more trust in pirate circles than Karpe would’ve[…] Adda kept hers as a reminder for anyone who met Pel that the weird AI whisperer was his big sister, and they’d have a lot more than a couple of pirates to tangle with if they messed with him.2018, R. E. Stearns, Mutiny at Vesta, Simon and Schuster, page 116
    • “But you're the AI whisperer. I mean, the entropy sweeper thinks you're its best friend. And now Brana has a name I didn't even know about, but you do. Why do all the AIs I program love you so much?”2020 May 5, Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe, Disney Electronic Content, →ISBN

Forms of AI whisperer

pluralAI whisperers

Questions about AI whisperer

What does AI whisperer mean?
AI whisperer means a person with a knack for persuading an artificial intelligence program to produce a desired kind of output.
What part of speech is AI whisperer?
AI whisperer is a noun.
What is the plural of AI whisperer?
The plural of AI whisperer is AI whisperers.

Words near AI whisperer in the dictionary

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