The art of prompting in the age of ChatGPT

In the very near future, employees working in just about every industry imaginable will need to know how to prompt chatbots such as ChatGPT effectively and efficiently. — Bloomberg

EVERYONE should be learning to prompt. You, me, your kids, your neighbour – everyone. Prompting is the language of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), enabling instruction from human to machine, and is therefore perhaps the most useful tongue you could possibly master in today’s world.

On ChatGPT, the text-based tool from OpenAI that brought about the recent explosion in excitement around AI, some examples of basic prompts would be: “Explain how photosynthesis works” or “write a summary of Hamlet.”