Critique of Prompt Engineering in AI Models
By
Bluestein
Properly proved. Has structure, has flavour, has a point.
Summary
The article criticizes the concept of prompt engineering in AI models, highlighting its flaws and lack of criteria for success.
Key quotes
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Some specific ways of prompting some specific models will result in a 'better result' without any criteria for what a 'better result' might signify.
It's enough for users in the US to wake up for free/available compute to go.
Prompt engineering is an attempt to reverse-engineer a non-deterministic black box for which many parameters are unknown.
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