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prompt engineer

prompt engineer noun: someone who designs prompts to be given to an artificial intelligence.

Noun

prompt engineer (plural prompt engineers)

  1. (neologism, artificial intelligence) Someone who designs prompts to be given to an artificial intelligence.
    • 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 March, Denis Rothman, Antonio Gulli, Transformers for Natural Language Processing, Packt Publishing, page 17
    • 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 13, Tim Bradshaw, “Is becoming a ‘prompt engineer’ the way to save your job from AI?”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on...

Forms of prompt engineer

pluralprompt engineers

Questions about prompt engineer

What does prompt engineer mean?
Prompt engineer means someone who designs prompts to be given to an artificial intelligence.
What part of speech is prompt engineer?
Prompt engineer is a noun.
What is the plural of prompt engineer?
The plural of prompt engineer is prompt engineers.

Words near prompt engineer in the dictionary

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  2. prompt crafting
  3. prompt critical
  4. prompt criticalities
  5. prompt criticality
  6. prompt engineer
  7. prompt engineering
  8. prompt engineers
  9. prompt injection
  10. prompt injections
  11. prompt neutron

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