"Why Johnny Can’t Prompt"
status: unread (2023-06-30 17:06:56) Why Johnny Can’t Prompt: How Non-AI Experts Try (and Fail) to Design LLM Prompts bibtex @inproceedings{zamfirescu-pereira2023johnny, author = {Zamfirescu-Pereira,...
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status: unread (2023-06-30 17:06:56) Why Johnny Can’t Prompt: How Non-AI Experts Try (and Fail) to Design LLM Prompts bibtex @inproceedings{zamfirescu-pereira2023johnny, author = {Zamfirescu-Pereira,...
Responds to Benedict Evans' tweet about ChatGPT tasks, arguing the challenge isn't describing tasks briefly but finding the right prompts that connect searchers to their goals. Draws on dissertation research about how data engineers grow queries from code and conversation seeds.
Follow-up: very few 2-3 sentence descriptions connect (weblog). What is a "worthwhile task"? [ highlighting added] \@benedictevans The more I look at chatGPT, the more I think that the fact NLP didn’t...