LLMs (Large Language Models) like OpenAI's GPT-4 act as repositories for millions of vector programs mined from human-generated data learned as a by-product of language compression, says AI researcher François Chollet. Prompt engineering then involves searching for the right "program key" and "program argument(s)" to accomplish a given task more accurately. Chollet expects that as LLMs evolve, prompt engineering will remain critical, but can be automated for a seamless user experience. This is in line with recent ideas from labs such as Deepmind, which is exploring automated prompt engineering.

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Max is managing editor at THE DECODER. As a trained philosopher, he deals with consciousness, AI, and the question of whether machines can really think or just pretend to.
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