ChatGPT Prompt Engineering, "Let's Think Step by Step", and other Magic Phrases.

Because of the variability of results from LLMs, like ChatGPT, the AI industry has recently come up with a new specialist role, the "Prompt Engineer", whose job it is to extract the maximum value from AI models. This role, typically recruited from people with a "hacker mindset", consists of constructing carefully phrased prompts that explain to the AI model exactly what they want and how they want it. The role is now so in demand, that AI companies, flush with cash, are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to people with the right skills, or aptitude. It's tempting to imagine that the work of a Prompt Engineer involves spending all day long at a computer shooting riddles at ChatGPT to see if it can solve them, and then adjusting the model to get the best results. Whilst most AI companies have teams responsible for testing the pre-trained model and implementing safety measures to reduce bias and hateful outcomes, this process typically occurs before the AI model is made available to the general public.