Is ChatGPT a threat to human employment? Consider again. The AI chatbot has resulted in demand for a new job, according to Mushtaq Bilal, a PHD holder and researcher at the University of Southern Denmark. Are you curious about the job? ‘Prompt Writer’ is the name of the programme. And you know what? Companies are willing to pay as much as $300,000 per year for the position.
Explaining the Prompt Writing job role in a series of tweets, Bilal writes “Thanks to ChatGPT, prompt writing is now a highly valued skill. A tech company is offering $300,000/year to hire a prompt writer.”
Now the question that should come to your mind is, what exactly is the role of a Prompt Writer. Prompt writing involves writing a prompt that gets you your desired result, Bilal explains.
He says that since large language models like ChatGPT are trained on large sets of data, these apps are teachable.
Starting with a simple prompt and eventually increasing the level of complexity will get better results, he explains. But if the AI bot is given a complex task right out the gate, its results may lack precision, he adds.
He explains it further by giving an example in the following tweets. “I start by establishing context. I ask GPT-4 who Franco Moretti is. It’s a simple question and GPT-4 does a good job of introducing Moretti and his contributions to literary scholarship,” he writes.
But then he gives ChatGPT-4 an extract from one of Moretti’s essays and asks it about the points in the essay that an undergraduate student may find difficult. ‘GPT-4 does a great job of pointing out the things an undergrad may find challenging,’ he writes.