The Prompt Engineer Is the Artist of Our Age
In fact, I’d like to propose something that sounds almost heretical in certain artistic circles: Prompt engineering, the act of crafting input to coax a desired output from an AI, may soon be regarded as a legitimate artistic medium. In the same way photography became an expressive form in its own right, so too might the process of collaborating... See more
The MIT Press Reader • The Prompt Engineer Is the Artist of Our Age
As artist and AI collaborator Refik Anadol says, “This is pure collaboration , imagination with a machine.”
The MIT Press Reader • The Prompt Engineer Is the Artist of Our Age
Today, the artistic prompt typed into a chatbot is itself becoming a form of expression. The difference between a clunky query and an inspired one is as wide as the gap between a finger painting and a Van Gogh. Ask an LLM to “write a poem about sadness,” and you’ll get bland, derivative, sentimental drivel. It takes skill and creativity (not to... See more