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AIDEN Prompt Engineering Handbook
AIDEN is transforming the future of work by addressing the $8.8 Trillion Employee Disengagement Problem. Our mission is to enable as many people as possible to pursue creative, higher-order work, by outsourcing everything that can be outsourced, to AI. This is the first part of our free prompt engineering handbook. Over the course of the next few weeks, we will release additional sections of the handbook. You learn about us at www.aiden.global or reach out at contact@aiden.global
Introduction
Imagine asking your computer to write a catchy marketing email, design a website layout, or even provide summaries of complex research. With the power of prompt engineering, you can harness AI to do these things and much more. But first, let’s rewind to November 2022 when OpenAI’s ChatGPT made this technology accessible to everyone.
In the past, the public has been exposed to advances in AI, like when IBM’s Watson played Jeopardy and beat the world’s best human player, or when Google’s DeepMind released AlphaGO that surpassed human capability, as demonstrated in the landmark documentary. But when the average user could access ChatGPT, for the first time they could directly interface and toy with a machine that seemed to match human-level intelligence and that could potentially be our work peer, our friend, our therapist, our executive assistant, our strategic coach, and more.
Yet, from 2023 Pew Research survey’s, only 15% of working adults who have heard of ChatGPT in the US believe that it will be useful for their jobs (Image 1).
Image 1: Helpfulness of chatbots from Pew Research Center
From our own conversations with individuals and clients, most people are still not fully tapping into the potential of what GPT will do, while a large majority still use the old and unpaid version over GPT-4, which has significant improvements.
To us, this is in many ways the equivalent of when search engines were first born — most people used it sparingly and not to its full potential. And the more people used it, the better search engines became. The same can be said of any AI models that will improve over time. As we regularly remind people, these are the worst they will ever be.
