Students must take it on themselves to make their education more flexible, integrating practical skills with the critical-thinking abilities that will be more highly valued in the age of robots.
The job market has never offered any guarantees. Mechanization wiped out once-secure careers in manufacturing. Now artificial intelligence (AI) is coming for a future generation of jobs that had seemed safe, starting with software coding and back-office work. So what can we do about it?
Despite some hyperbolic fears, there are reasons to be optimistic about the future of technology. It has the potential to bring a better quality of life and more widespread prosperity — eventually. To prosper in this future, workers will need new skills and a different education. And that means rethinking how we approach college and what we want it to provide us.
Prompt engineering is a field that never existed before. Thanks to AI. To become a prompt engineer, you must learn to create prompts that generate desirable responses from AI models.
Moreover, Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company, introduces a role for a “prompt engineer and librarian” with handsome packages between $175,000 to $335,000.
However, being a Prompt engineer is something new for everyone. We need to look at what prompt engineering is, what prompt engineers do, and the requirements for this role.
Who Is A Prompt Engineer?
A prompt engineer creates and improves AI models using prompt techniques and procedures. Likewise, this is similar to presenting a model of how to do something by giving them “prompts” or step-by-step instructions.
Moreover, Prompt engineer responsibilities are immense as they work with large language models like ChatGPT-3 or chatGPT-4.
Besides, their job is to focus on designing prompts that generate the exact responses a user needs. Undeniably, this enhances the models to provide more accurate and relevant text outputs.
A prompt engineer performs the following duties:
Develop language models using established tools and techniques
Write prose to examine AI systems for quirks (find the flaws and hidden capabilities)
Analyze datasets to identify language patterns and trends and create new prompts
Create and maintain language model documentation, including examples, guidelines and best practices
Have a close look at model performance to identify areas for improvement
Collaborate with software engineers and scientists to integrate language models into software applications and systems
Furthermore, a prompt engineer must know the programming language to work with datasets and develop exemplary tune language models. Moreover, to collaborate with software engineers and data scientists.
Ways To Learn Prompt Engineering
You don’t need to learn coding or any programming language to start learning prompt engineering. You need to know a few things and techniques to understand prompt engineering.
Learn programming fundamentals: As a prompt engineer, you must understand some programming basics and concepts to collaborate with data scientists and engineers. Python is considered the best language for this
Learn Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) concepts: prompt engineers must possess a good knowledge of NLP and ML, such as feature engineering, text processing, model training and optimization.
Learn developing prompts and fine-tuning language models: Learn to use prompt engineering techniques to produce text outputs from language models. Practice different prompt types and fine-tune language models to improve performance.
Create a portfolio of prompt engineering projects to highlight your expertise.
The Prompt Engineers Can Get Up To $335K
Anthropic gives value to prompt engineers and pays up to $335K. The company is famous for developing general AI systems and language models. However, Google has invested nearly $400 million in this company.
Here we are listing the basic requirements for this job:
Excellent communication skills and love teaching technical concepts and generating high-quality documentation that helps out others
A good understanding of architecture and the operation of large language models
Basic programming skills and writing small Python programs
Stay updated and proactive in taking an active interest in emerging research and industry trends.
However, the field is new, so that the prompt engineer role may differ from one company to another. Whereas the salaries also vary as the area is new.
In addition, the pay scale for the same jobs in other companies might not be as generous as Anthropic offers.
Out of all the burgeoning tech companies diving into the AI pool, no one has pushed for widespread integrations harder and faster than Microsoft. The latest integrations include access to the AI-powered chatbot via the company’s SwiftKey keyboard app, now available on iOS.
Within the Swiftkey app, the bot has three functions: Search, Chat and Tone. The first two are pretty easy to understand, you can search the web from the Swiftkey app and chat with Bing if you have questions (or a slow day in the office), but the third function is pretty cool. It makes Bing your editor and lets the bot reword your copy to fit a desired tone.
In the official blog post from Microsoft, the team details the numerous ways Tone can be used on a day-to-day basis: “whether you struggle to be formal in your work emails or you’re learning a new language and want help with nuances of word choice”, Tone will have your back. You can make your words sounds more professional, casual, or polite.
The capabilities are pretty creative from Microsoft’s examples, as they say, you can use the search functionality to help you suggest new restaurants to friends in real-time, look stuff up mid-conversation – just to double-check you’re right, of course – or check the weather when you’re making plans.
The features are available wherever the new Bing is available, and while everyone can use the Search function now, Tone and Chat functions require you sign into a Microsoft Account that has access to the new Bing.
Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing has been grabbing headlines ever since the company debuted the generative A.I. chatbot earlier this month. And now the software is being built directly into Windows 11.
Available today as part of Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update, the Bing app will sit in your PC’s taskbar where it will be accessible via a search box, so you can ask the bot questions at any time without having to open the Edge web browser.
“You can simply type in the taskbar, and ask for information and get helpful information,” corporate vice president and consumer CMO Yusuf Mehdi told Yahoo Finance. “I think that’s the first step to making this tool even more relevant to whatever it is you’re doing on the PC.”
Bing has been praised for offering users who sign up to access the preview a new way to search the web by chatting with the A.I.-powered bot. But it’s also been criticized for providing inaccurate answers in some instances, including during my own testing when it gave me the wrong revenue data for Apple’s (AAPL) Q3 earnings report. In other cases, users have accused the bot of presenting strange responses to long strings of queries.
The mystery of what Elon Musk plans to do with Twitter may have just begun to unravel. Even as Musk tries to hide it all behind the veil of X, an Insider report has revealed that Twitter may be working on a generative artificial intelligence (AI) project, much like a ChatGPT, using its own treasure trove of data.
The news also comes at a time when Musk has been very vocal about generative AI products and recently called for a moratorium to be placed on the release of new products in the next six months. Interestingly, Musk’s tirade is directed at OpenAI, an organization that he co-founded and donated money for AI research. Since 2018, Musk and OpenAI have split ways, with the latter funding financial support from Microsoft
How Twitter could deploy AI
According to Insider’s report, Twitter has purchased 10,000 graphics processing units (GPUs), which indicates plans to work on large language models (LLMs).
Interesting Engineering has previously reported how Microsoft stitched together tens of thousands of GPUs for OpenAI’s developmental work, and it now appears that the leftover engineers at Twitter will be tasked with doing the same.
To lead the task, Musk hired AI researchers from DeepMind, the AI research wing of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, and has personally approached people in the AI field, reports suggest.
Although speculation, it appears that Musk could task AI with improving the search functionality at Twitter, something Musk has publicly complained about earlier.
The other area where AI could help is in serving personalized advertisements, as the platform looks to make money in ways other than subscription fees. Generative AI could dish out targeted images and text to users on the platform.
While the project is an attempt to breathe fresh life into Twitter, Musk could also be using it to settle scores with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. According to a Semafor report, back in 2018, Musk wanted to lead OpenAI’s research efforts and take up the CEO’s job, a move that was opposed by Altman and other co-founders.
Musk soon left OpenAI while also taking away funding for development works at OpenAI. A move that saw the latter strike up a partnership with Microsoft. The recent success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has allegedly infuriated Musk, who also shut down the organization’s access to Twitter’s database
Not surprising, as I just learned that OpenAI had access to Twitter database for training. I put that on pause for now.
Need to understand more about governance structure & revenue plans going forward.
OpenAI was started as open-source & non-profit. Neither are still true.
ROME (AP) — ChatGPT could return to Italy soon if its maker, OpenAI, complies with measures to satisfy regulators who had imposed a temporary ban on the artificial intelligence software over privacy worries.
The Italian data protection authority on Wednesday outlined a raft of requirements that OpenAI will have to satisfy by April 30 for the the ban on AI chatbot to be lifted.
The watchdog known as Garante last month ordered the company to temporarily stop processing Italian users’ personal information while it investigated a possible data breach. The authority said it didn’t want to hamper AI’s development but emphasized the importance of following the European Union’s strict data privacy rules.
OpenAI, which had responded by proposing remedies to ease the concerns, on Wednesday welcomed the Italian regulators’ move.
“We are happy that the Italian Garante is reconsidering their decision and we look forward to working with them to make ChatGPT available to our customers in Italy again soon,” OpenAI said.
Concerns are growing about the artificial intelligence boom, with other countries, from France to Canada, investigating or looking closer at so-called generative AI technology like ChatGPT. The chatbot is “trained” on huge pools of data, including digital books and online writings, and able to generate text that mimics human writing styles.
Under Italy’s measures, OpenAI must post information on its website about how and why it processes the personal information of both users and non-users, as well as provide the option to correct or delete that data.
The company will have to rely on consent or “legitimate interest” to use personal data to train ChatGPT’s algorithms, the watchdog said.
The Italian regulators had questioned whether there’s a legal basis for OpenAI to collect massive amounts of data used to teach ChatGPT’s algorithms and raised concerns the system could sometimes generate false information about individuals.
San Francisco-based OpenAI also will have to carry out a publicity campaign by May 15 through radio and TV, newspapers and the internet to inform people about how it uses their personal data for training algorithms, Italy’s watchdog said.
There’s also a requirement to verify users’ ages and set up a system to filter out those who are under 13 and teens between 13 and 18 who don’t have parental consent.
“Only in that case will the Italian SA (supervisory authority) lift its order that placed a temporary limitation on the processing of Italian users’ data …. so that ChatGPT will be available once again from Italy,” the watchdog said on its website.
Artist Jyo John Mulloor shared a bunch of AI-generated visuals to show what the Taj Mahal might have looked like during its construction.
The viral Artificial Intelligence trend has taken over social media, and artists are now using several AI tools to come up with fascinating results. Many artists are now employing this technology to produce unique and unimaginable results, that instantly capture the internet’s attention. Now, artist Jyo John Mulloor shared a bunch of AI-generated visuals to show what the Taj Mahal might have looked like during its construction. The pictures were created with the help of the AI image generator Midjourney.
“A glimpse into the past! Shah Jahan’s incredible legacy, the Taj Mahal, was captured during its construction. Grateful to have these rare photos and his permission letter to share with you all,” read the caption shared along with the photos.
The first seven pictures show the several construction phases of the magnificent monument, with workers seen in the backdrop. The initial images show the under-construction mausoleum without its signature minarets. The last picture shows the Taj Mahal, as it is standing today, in all its architectural brilliance.
Instagram users loved the pictures and posted a variety of comments. “Love it! And the letter.. What a touch! What an imagination. You are bringing it all alive. Love from India,” one user wrote. Another commented, ”Lovely form to show your imagination.”
A third added, ”Want to see Pyramid construction and It’s mystery tools used for building.” ”That’s just incredible,” shared a fourth.
Recently, another artist also used Midjourney to reimagine the world’s wealthiest people as poor, and the results are stunning. Artist Gokul Pillai shared seven pictures on Instagram that show what billionaires would look like if they lived in slums. The post featured Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Mukesh Ambani, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk.
Kuwait media outlet, Kuwait news, debuted their first artificial intelligence (AI) generated news presenter ‘Fedha’. The media outlet Kuwaiti News plans to the news presenter Fedha to read online bulletins in future. “Fedha” appeared on the Twitter account of the Kuwait News website on Saturday as an image of a woman, her light-coloured hair uncovered, wearing a black jacket and white T-shirt.
Kuwaiti News is affiliated with the Kuwait Times, founded in 1961 as the Gulf region’s first English-language daily.
“Fedha represents everyone,” Abdullah Boftain, deputy editor in chief for both outlets said.
“I’m Fedha, the first presenter in Kuwait who works with artificial intelligence at Kuwait News. What kind of news do you prefer? Let’s hear your opinions,” she said in classical Arabic.
Boftain further informed that the move is a test of AI’s potential to offer “new and innovative content”.
In future Fedha could adopt the Kuwaiti accent and present news bulletins on the site’s Twitter account, which has 1.2 million followers, he said.
“Fedha is a popular, old Kuwaiti name that refers to silver, the metal. We always imagine robots to be silver and metallic in colour, so we combined the two,” Boftain said.
The presenter’s blonde hair and light-coloured eyes reflect the oil-rich country’s diverse population of Kuwaitis and expatriates, according to Boftain.
Her initial 13-second video generated a flood of reactions on social media, including from journalists.
The rapid rise of AI globally has raised the promise of benefits, such as in health care and the elimination of mundane tasks, but also fears, for example over its potential spread of disinformation, threat to certain jobs, and to artistic integrity.
Kuwait ranked 158 out of 180 countries and territories in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 2022 Press Freedom Index.
A computer scientist is urging the world to record their elderly parents and loved ones as he predicts consciousness could be uploaded onto a computer this year.
Dr Pratik Desai, who has founded multiple Silicon Valley AI startups, said that if people have enough video and voice recorders of their loved ones, there is a ‘100 percent chance’ of relatives ‘living with you forever.’
Desai, who has created his own ChatGPT-like system, wrote on Twitter: ‘This should be even possible by end of the year.’
Many scientists believe the rapid advancements in AI, which ChatGPT is spearheading, are poised to usher in a new golden era for technology.
However, the world’s greatest minds are split on the technology – Elon Musk and more than 1,000 tech leaders are calling for a pause, warning it could destroy humanity.
On the other side are other experts, like Bill Gates, who believe AI will improve our lives – and it seems other experts are on board with the idea it will help us live on forever.
A computer scientist believes technology to create digital humans after they die will be possible by the end of this year.
Desai is on the side of Gates, believing we can recreate our dead loved ones as avatars living in a computer.
The process would include digitizing videos, voice recordings, documents and photos of the person, then fed to an AI system that learns everything it can about the individual.
Users can then design a specific avatar that looks and acts just like their living relative did.
The advancement of ChatGPT has progressed one company working on virtual humans.
The project called Live Forever creates a VR robot of a person with the same speech and mannerisms as the person it was tasked with replicating.
Artur Sychov, the founder of Live Forever, told Motherboard in 2022 that he predicted the technology would be out in five years, but due to recent advancements inAI, he expects it will only be a short time.
‘We can take this data and apply AI to it and recreate you as an avatar on your land parcel or inside your NFT world, and people will be able to come and talk to you,’ Sychov told Motherboard.
‘You will meet the person. And you would maybe for the first 10 minutes while talking to that person, you would not know that it’s actually AI. That’s the goal.’
Another AI company, DeepBrain AI, has created a memorial hall that lets people reunite with their dead loved ones in an immersive experience.
The service, called Rememory, uses photos, videos, and a seven-hour interview of the person while still living.
The AI-powered virtual person is designed with deep learning technologies to capture the individual’s look and voice, which is displayed on a 400-inch screen.
In 2020, a Korean television show used virtual reality to reunite a mother with her seven-year-old daughter, who died in 2016.
The show, ‘Meeting You,’ recounted the story of a family’s loss of their seven-year-old daughter Nayeon.
The two could touch, play and hold conversations, and the little girl reassured her mother that she was no longer in pain.
Jang Ji-sung, Nayeon’s mother, put on the Vive virtual reality (VR) headset and was transported into a garden where her daughter stood there smiling in a bright purple dress.
‘Oh my pretty, I have missed you,’ the mother can be heard saying as she strokes the digital replica of her daughter.
Desai did not provide many details about his idea of the technology, but former Google Engineer Ray Kurzweil is also working on a digital afterlife for humans – specifically to resurrect his father.
Kurzweil, 75, said his father passed when he was 22 years old and hopes to one day talk to him through the help of a computer.
‘I will be able to talk to this re-creation,’ he told BBC in 2012. ‘Ultimately, it will be so realistic it will be like talking to my father.’
Kurzweil explained he has hundreds of boxes containing documents, recordings, movies and photographs of his father, which he is digitizing.
‘A very good way to express all of this documentation would be to create an avatar that an AI would create that would be as much like my father as possible, given the information we have about him, including possibly his DNA,’ Kurzweil said.
The scientist continued to explain that his digital father would undergo a Turing Test, which is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. ‘If an entity passes the Turing test, let alone a specific person, that person is conscious,’ Kurzweil said. Along with uploading memories from the dead, Kurzweil also predicts that humans will reach immortality in just eight years.
He recently spoke with the YouTube channel Adagio, discussing the expansion in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics, which he believes will lead to age-reversing ‘nanobots.’
These tiny robots will repair damaged cells and tissues that deteriorate as the body ages and make us immune to diseases like cancer.
Kurzweil was hired by Google in 2012 to ‘work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing,’ but he was making predictions in technological advances long before.
In 1990, he predicted the world’s best chess player would lose to a computer by 2000, and it happened in 1997 when Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov.
Kurzweil made another startling prediction in 1999: he said that by 2023 a $1,000 laptop would have a human brain’s computing power and storage capacity.
What happens when you die is the world’s greatest mystery, but scientists are working on technologies where death is not the end. He said that machines are already making us more intelligent and connecting them to our neocortex will help people think more smartly. Contrary to the fears of some, he believes that implanting computers in our brains will improve us.
‘We’re going to get more neocortex, we’re going to be funnier, we’re going to be better at music. We’re going to be sexier’, he said.
‘We’re really going to exemplify all the things that we value in humans to a greater degree.’
Rather than a vision of the future where machines take over humanity, Kurzweil believes we will create a human-machine synthesis that will make us better.The concept of nanomachines being inserted into the human body has been in science fiction for decades.
EXPEDIA INTRODUCES CHATGPT FEATURE TO MAKE TRAVEL PLANS USERS OF THE EXPEDIA APPLICATION WILL BE ABLE TO RESERVE TRAVEL USING A CHATGPT-ENABLED CHATBOT.
You can now consult ChatGPT for assistance the next time you make travel plans with Expedia. Expedia Group announced Tuesday that the online travel agency has introduced “conversational trip planning” backed by an OpenAI computer programme.
“As the leader in travel tech, Expedia continues to build out the core operating system for the industry, constantly enhancing capabilities and making trip planning faster, simpler and even more informative,” Peter Kern, Expedia Group’s vice chairman and CEO, said in a news release.
“By integrating ChatGPT into the Expedia app and combining it with our other AI-based shopping capabilities, like hotel comparison, price tracking for flights and trip collaboration tools, we can now offer travelers an even more intuitive way to build their perfect trip.”
Expedia has integrated a chatbot powered by ChatGPT into its iOS mobile app, which can help users plan vacations. Photo: Expedia
Users of the Expedia application will be able to reserve travel using a ChatGPT-enabled chatbot that is powered by OpenAI. Travellers can request advice using the service, which is now in beta testing, for things like places to go, routes to take, or accommodations. Some of the suggestions can be used immediately by travellers to make a reservation.
On Tuesday, Expedia will offer the ChatGPT feature available to all iPhone users. Only English would be offered for use with the function. According to a representative, the firm has further goals of making the feature available to Android users, but no exact time has been defined.
The move comes shortly after the announcement of plug-ins within OpenAI’s own ChatGPT software by Expedia and competitor Kayak. These plug-ins give ChatGPT app users suggestions for travel-related stuff as well as the ability to send users to the websites of the relevant businesses to finalize bookings.
“ChatGPT is a search tool—it’s a new way of thinking, a new way of searching, a new way of experiencing,” Expedia Group Inc. Chief Executive Peter Kern said in an interview. “And we want to meet customers where they are.”
It has already integrated other AI technologies into its site. To serve consumers with any problems they get after booking their trip, the online booking firm runs a customer support chatbot. Furthermore, machine learning and artificial intelligence are utilized to power Expedia’s ticket price tracking tool.
EXPANDING CAPABILITIES
Although Microsoft’s Bing and OpenAI’s ChatGPT could offer users recommendations for vacation planning, their outcomes can differ. The Wall Street Journal’s test queries discovered that the platforms occasionally delivered inaccurate data. Furthermore, they didn’t offer a complete experience since it was not possible to book through the chat platform.
Users’ personal details won’t be exchanged with OpenAI whenever they interact with the Expedia app, according to Mr Kern, however, Expedia may utilize such information within the company in the future to even further customize the user experience.
