I studied philosophy at King's College London because I was passionate about critical thinking and analytic questioning. Prompt engineers didn't exist in the UK when I started my degree in 2019, but four years later, it feels like the best combination of my education and skills.
AutogenAI has button functions such as rephrase, summarize, and tone of voice that users can employ to adapt their own text.As a prompt engineer, I need to make sure the coding and more detailed prompts behind these buttons create accurate and consistent results and that engineers can adapt the coding and prompts as the AI system changes.
This helped me gain a deep understanding of how we use language — the nuances of tone, expression, finding the right words to convey meaning, and ultimately, how language is not just a passive medium to exchange ideas, but something that impacts the physical world. It has causes and effects like any other thing in the universe does.
One area I did cover in my degree was the ethics of AI. I studied the problems of consciousness, identity, truth, inherent bias, how creativity and work affect society, and more, but had little to no understanding of what a language model was before starting in my role.