Artificial Intelligence | May 12, 2023
Beyond the basic level of a user who uses tools like ChatGPT for simple tasks, there is a professional profile increasingly sought after by companies both in Spain and around the world. A person capable of getting the most out of this technology so that artificial intelligence can perform complex tasks that, in some cases, require only a few lines of code.
The company OpenAI, creator and developer of ChatGPT AI, has just launched a free course called “ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers” in collaboration with the platform DeepLearning.AI. The target audience ranges from beginners to more advanced users, and only requires a basic understanding of the Python programming language.
The role of a prompt engineer is one of the most demanded and valued within companies today despite not requiring extensive technical knowledge. According to Bloomberg, the annual salary range for someone with this profile is between 200,000 and 250,000 euros in some US technology companies.
In the one-hour course, available online on demand, “you will learn how to use a large language model (LLM) to quickly create new and powerful applications,” as explained by the instructors. “With the OpenAI API, you can quickly develop capabilities that will allow you to learn how to innovate and create value in ways that were previously prohibitive in terms of costs, either because they were too technical or simply impossible.”
The course is taught by Isa Fulford from OpenAI and Andrew Ng from DeepLearning.AI, who will explain to the student how LLMs work, provide best practices for rapid engineering, and demonstrate how LLM APIs can be used in applications for a wide variety of tasks.
These tasks include the ability to summarize, such as summarizing user reviews by making them shorter. They also include inference with applications in the field of sentiment classification or topic extraction. The list is completed by text transformation—translation, spelling and grammar correction, etc.—and expansion—such as automatically writing emails.
In addition, “you will learn two key principles for writing effective prompts, how to systematically design good prompts, and also how to create a custom chatbot.” All concepts, as explained, are illustrated with numerous practical examples with which the student can work within the tools provided within the course.
“Generative AI offers many opportunities for AI engineers to build powerful applications in minutes or hours that would have taken days or weeks before,” declares Andrew Ng. “I am excited to share these best practices to enable many more people to take advantage of these revolutionary new capabilities.”
As previously stated, the course is completely free for a limited time. It is now open to the general public and you simply need to register on the DeepLearning.AI website.
