A panel of AI practitioners and prompt engineering pioneers — including researchers, educators, and creative technologists — break down the art and science of communicating with AI, from GPT-2 to today's most powerful large language models. Discover why how you prompt is just as critical as what you ask, and learn advanced techniques like persona assignment, super prompts, and multi-window AI workflows that separate average users from true power users. Whether you're an entrepreneur automating your business or a creator leveraging AI for storytelling, this episode will transform the way you think about human-AI collaboration and the future of innovation.
Prompting Is Communication | Why everything you get from AI reflects exactly what you put into it
Super Prompts Explained | How mega prompts with context, character, and instructions unlock precision AI output
Persona Power | Why assigning a role to your AI dramatically improves the quality of every response
Natural Language Prompting | How beginners can start strong by ditching jargon and speaking conversationally to AI
Collective Conscious Mind | Why generative AI represents real-time access to everything humanity has ever created
Attention Mechanism Words | How understanding NLP fundamentals can make anyone a more effective prompt engineer
Multi-Window AI Workflows | Why separating your AI author and AI editor into different sessions boosts productivity
Prompting in Education | How grading AI transcripts reveals student thinking in ways traditional essays never could
AI Literacy in 2024 | Why anyone who hasn't learned to prompt is already falling behind regardless of their industry
00:00 - 03:30 | Prompting as Communication: What You Put In Matters
03:30 - 07:00 | Prompt Engineering Since GPT-2: How the Craft Has Evolved
07:00 - 10:30 | Super Prompts and Structured Outputs: Getting Precise Results
10:30 - 14:00 | Persona Assignment and Stating Your Why in Prompts
14:00 - 17:30 | Natural Language Prompting: The Best Entry Point for Beginners
17:30 - 21:00 | AI as the Collective Conscious Mind: A New Creative Partner
21:00 - 24:30 | Video Generation, Image Prompting, and Creative Iteration
24:30 - 27:30 | Training Prompts Beyond Engineering: Building Custom AI Archives
27:30 - 31:00 | Attention Mechanism Words: The Key to Machine Understanding
31:00 - 34:53 | AI Literacy, Education, and the Massive Paradigm Shift Ahead
"What you get out of it is just like in life — is what you put into it."
"Naming a persona is probably one of the most powerful tokens or most powerful things you can put into a prompt."
"I call generative AI the collective conscious mind — we took everything that humans created when we were conscious, and we trained this neural net on it, and then it gives anyone access to all of that real time at whatever, one hundred or 1000x the speed of a normal human mind."
"The name of the game is to build my own capacity and build my own — make myself stronger — not to just push the button and get all the golden eggs."
"What if breadth is going to reemerge as the new depth?"
"The term prompt engineering — it's exactly what an engineer would call critical thinking in the liberal arts."
"If you're in correction three or four, basically, you're just gonna have a bad time — you might as well just restart the whole thing."
"In year 2024, anyone who doesn't know how to prompt — they're already behind. It doesn't matter what their job is and what's the relationship with AI or computer. That's the skill set you have to learn."
"Working with a large language model is not one prompt and then it's over — it's actually a conversation, it's a dialogue, it's an ongoing collaboration brainstorming partner."
"What if our twenty-five year national nightmare of STEM over-specialization starts to give way to room for poets and painters and philosophers and psychologists again?"
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