{"id":1474,"date":"2023-10-25T17:45:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T16:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmoore.io\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2024-05-03T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T14:59:29","slug":"how-to-talk-to-ai-part-1-introduce-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmoore.io\/how-to-talk-to-ai-part-1-introduce-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"How to talk to AI (Part 1) – Introduce Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Beginning<\/h2>\n

As we start to do various AI-shaped things at work, I’ve had a bit of a road-to-Damascus moment. I’d instinctively assumed that because language is the interface to the new (ish) breed of generative AI tools, that everyone would quickly get good results and understand the strengths and limitations of tools like ChatGPT. I was pretty wrong.<\/p>\n

*skip to the interesting bit<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve recently spent a ton of time with people who haven’t used these sorts of tools before, and I quickly concluded that prompt engineering – the dubiously named, not well-understood art of getting good quality answers from AI systems like ChatGPT – is very real, and something that *all* of us need to learn.<\/p>\n

The more time I’ve spent with people, the more it’s dawned on me that I’ve slowly learned my own version of what I think is really a kind of AI-dialect?<\/p>\n

Through persistence, trial and error, and reading an unhealthy number of articles on generative AI tools, I’ve been able to get terrifyingly good results. The knock-on effect is that I’ve deeply integrated tools like ChatGPT into my day-to-day life. They’ve been a huge personal benefit, and (increasingly) a benefit to the people who have to listen to me bang on about them all the time.<\/p>\n

I’ve been at it for nearly a year, and I’m now on a bit of a mission to:<\/p>\n