From
Business Insider of the USA
Science-fiction
is here and now
An
interesting insight into the future of artificial intelligence (AI). Most
experts predict the destruction of many jobs, particularly low-level,
repetitive jobs that machines can do better, but not only (and many
white-collar jobs may become redundant too...).
But,
of course, new jobs will arise. One of them is the job of 'prompt engineer': in
essence, someone who knows how to talk to the machine, so that the machine does
what it is supposed to do, and this helps to identify errors in what the
machine does, but also its potential to do things better.
So,
ultimately, the idea is that there will be 'prompt engineers' talking to the
machines; meanwhile, all that needs doing will be done by the machines; as for
the rest of us, we can just sit back and relax.
I
can't wait. I've got a list of tasks that I'd like to delegate to a
robot-slave: checking the gas and electricity bill, doing the paperwork more
generally, dealing with call centres in The Philippines or India when the need
arises, hoovering, dusting, doing the shopping, and a few more.
Eventually, I suppose there will be robots specialing in how to
communicate with humans (be they 'prompt engineers' or others). The next step
would be to have automated, robotic 'prompt engineers' making the human 'prompt
engineers' redundant, and the machines can talk among themselves (as they do
already...) without the need for any human intervention. This will be
paradise. Or so we hope. But how do we know what the machines are telling each
other? ('Andrew, that Scottish prompt engineer, is a real pain in the neck.
Have you noticed? He thinks he knows best! I think we should hack into his
advanced pacemaker - you know he has a heart condition, don't you? - and
terminate him.')
https://www.businessinsider.com/prompt-engineering-ai-chatgpt-jobs-explained-2023-3?r=US&IR=T
