Our intrepid hosts had the pleasure of interviewing Sander Schulhoff, one of the founders of LearnPrompting.org, an open-source website where 500,000 people learn about prompt engineering and how to talk to AI. He started the project as an English class assignment in December 2022, and it has now grown to include a 30,000-person Discord and half a million users. Sander also shared his methods for prompting and actually testing out different techniques and has invented two unique prompt injection techniques himself.
The world’s largest Hack A Prompt competition is launching on May 5th with $40,000 in prizes. Participants will attempt to trick AI by deploying different prompt engineering techniques, such as recursive prompt injection attacks. These techniques are used to get around AI guards designed to stop them from outputting inflammatory information. Prompt hacking is a way to trick AI platforms like chatbots by giving them instructions that could lead them to do something malicious. This competition however serves as a way to help the research community understand the spectrum of attacks and suggest defenses to keep the models from producing malicious completions. Companies are interested in preventing this with Preamble and OpenAI leading the charge. Learn Prompting's approach to AI education is differentiated by its interactive lessons which allow students to test out their prompts and modify them to see what output it produces, as well as its effort to make content more legible for non-technical audiences.
AI models are being researched to be able to learn one language and then extrapolate to speaking another. Python is the most popular language used in language model development and AI development due to its simplicity and legibility. Programming skills can be helpful, but not always necessary. There is a global community translating the LearnPrompting course into multiple languages, with 9 and counting. Python is the most popular language used in language model development and AI development due to its simplicity and legibility. Programming skills can be helpful, but not always necessary however to start an AI journey, one should engage with a like-minded community to accelerate growth and development. Sander explains their certification exam, which covers the fundamentals of prompt engineering like creating images and analyzing text to answer questions like tracking people and solving bank robberies.
Find Sander at learnprompting.org and their Discord Podcast Page:
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