Prompt engineering
Speaking a specific language is not hereditary. There is not a language center in our brain containing the language of our parents. Our brain engineers our neurons early in our lives to speak, read, write, and understand a language. Each human has a different language circuitry depending on their cultural background and how they were communicated with in their early years.
As we grow up, we discover that much of what we hear is chaos: unfinished sentences, grammar mistakes, misused words, bad pronunciation, and many other distortions.
We use language to convey a message. We quickly find that we need to adapt our language to the person or audience we address. We might have to try additional “inputs” or “prompts” to obtain the result (“output”) we expect. Foundation-level transformer models such as GPT-3 can perform hundreds of tasks in an indefinite number of ways. We must learn the language of transformer prompts...
