We got AI, like real scifi movie level AI.
It's taken over the internet and it's grown
faster than any tech platform in, like, ever.
But I realized, going through this, that
They're missing the biggest skill of them all.
The number one skill that will
actually make you money with AI.
Yes, AI is currently writing, coding and creating
art in ways that are terrifying.
Terrifying because everyone one feels like
they're about to lose their job.
And I see why.
A few weeks back, when I started messing with ChatGPT,
I had a complete existential crisis about this.
I was shocked.
I was amazed at what this technology can do.
But if I'm being honest with myself, I was
scared that in the flip of one switch,
I felt like I was a decade behind on technology. I'm 27.
I haven't had the chance to feel like the world
has passed me by until I touched ChatGPT.
And this is the public version.
What does the unreleased version look like?
This is what we're seeing.
I'm sitting in front of one
of the greatest tools ever built.
It's so foreign and new to me that I
don't even know what to do with it.
I felt completely lost on day one
and day two and day three.
So I was sitting there, I had to regroup
and I had to start with the basics.
I did what you probably did.
Just start watching videos on how people are
using AI to earn more money to improve
their life, increase productivity, things like that.
And surely there are some good ideas out there.
But nothing really stood out to me.
Yeah, I could use this to write 50 basic
blog posts a day, but so can anyone else.
Meaning that opportunity just isn't going to last long.
And after a couple of days of messing around with this,
I understood the basics of what it can do.
Basic business ideas.
I even coded.
Here, I told it to code a bouncing ball,
now make it 3D.
That's ridiculous and amazing.
But I still got the sense that I didn't fully understand
how to use this tool to the best of my ability.
So I clicked off of the popular videos
and the popular articles on ChatGPT,
and I began digging into the weeds.
Like, what are the pros focusing on?
And that's when I finally found it.
The missing piece in all of this,
So I really started focusing on this specific skill for
the last few weeks, finding the best resources and finally
building this video to show you what's taken me from
feeling like the world has passed me by
to confident that I can out-AI just about anyone.
This is my first installment of a
four part series I'm doing on AI.
I'm right here with you learning as I go about
all this crazy technology that seems like unharnessable.
And the goal here is for us to explore
how to use this technology to boost our lives.
Harnessing it instead of running from it.
Taking AI from this into this.
And it all starts with the skill of the century.
These are the two most important words you'll hear this year:
Prompt engineering is a niche phrase right now,
but I promise you this is going to become big.
Prompt engineering is essentially how to talk to an AI,
to get it to do what you want.
Like this, can you help me make friends?
- Oh, sure because that's exactly the kind of thing
a computer program is qualified to do.
I mean, making friends is easy, right?
- The more AI takes over our lives and
changes our jobs, the more important this skill
of talking to the AI will actually become.
The better you can talk to it,
the better it will help you get a competitive advantage over
everyone else and it will take over.
Just like the last time we had tech breakthroughs.
There's no hiding from this.
AI is essentially a bunch of smart
algorithms that think like a human being.
Technically, they don't think, but that's
the simplest way to conceptualize this. It can write.
It can code, summarize articles into single sentences.
Solve math problems, chess problems.
It can even draw it's already invading industries
like sales, legal and winning art competitions.
1000 word essay, does it in seconds.
Official business email? Easy.
Cyberpunk samurai business logos. Simple.
This is why you might think that AI is a threat.
It's better than you, so why wouldn't it take your job?
Well, the truth is actually the opposite.
Learning prompting turns AI into the
greatest ally you've ever had.
It can help you do everything
you already do, but faster.
And the better you get at prompting, the larger the
gap between you and someone not even using AI.
You're better, faster, more efficient at your work
and 10Xing your income and your productivity.
And here's the thing, the faster you learn how to
utilize this, the further ahead of the competition you'll be.
So you need to do this right now.
You need to start, like, right now.
Most people don't know this is important yet,
which makes this an insane opportunity for you.
Like I said, I was feeling totally lost
with this new AI stuff until I began
working on the skill of prompt engineering.
Here's how you do it. Okay?
You tell the AI to do something and it just does it.
- You have to do what I say, huh?
- That's one of my mission parameters.
- Stand on one foot.
YES!
- But like most things, there's an art to it.
There's some nuance here.
The first part is giving clear instructions.
Take this example. Here we're asking the AI
to remove any and all personal information from
a sales email and then replace that personal
information with a relevant placeholder.
We're utilizing prompt engineering knowledge by simply
This primes the AI to better
understand what to actually do.
So we say, for example, replace
the name with [NAME].
Because of the clear instructions, the AI understands
how to fill the other placeholders [DEALERSHIP], [SALESPERSON],
and [PHONE NUMBER], even though nobody specifically told
it how to do that.
It's just like explaining something to a person.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Check out chain of thought reasoning.
On the left, even though we give the AI an example question
and answer, it still gets the ultimate question wrong.
So we can go one step further. On the right,
we not only give an example question and answer in our
prompt, but we also explain how we got the answer.
This additional context before giving the AI.
Our ultimate question forces the AI to think
about the problem in pieces, allowing it to
actually find the correct answer this time.
The only difference here was the quality of
the prompting, the quality of the question.
Okay, now here's a trick I absolutely love.
You can also get the AI to explain its reasoning
and provide better answers by adding the words
at the end of a prompt.
Look at these two different kinds of prompts.
I ask you the question how to make money with AI?
And it provides a reasonably well
thought out list of ideas.
Now I ask, how do I make money with AI?
Let's think about this step by step, and we get a
completely different answer, this time, giving us tips and ideas on
how to actually come up with an idea, how to execute,
and how to continuously improve our AI business.
In a world where everyone has access to
this insane power, we can immediately see those
who will get ahead are the ones who
understand how to actually communicate with the AI
in order to produce the best results possible.
What's going to matter most is the ability
to give instructions and the creativity behind those
instructions instead of the actual execution.
Content creation is already big with AI, so let's do an example here:
How do I earn more money in 2023?
Decent advice here, but not much on
how to actually do these things,
and this is far from entertaining to read.
So let's be more specific and use
some of our prompt engineering tactics here.
Please write me a 500 word essay on the topic,
"How do I earn more money in 2023?"
With a clear introduction, middle and conclusion, references, and
elements of humor in the style of Mark Twain.
Now look at this.
Not only is this far more entertaining to read,
but there's actually good advice here.
Instead of just saying, "Ask for a raise, you'll make more money"
It gives you the context.
Don't be afraid to ask for what you're worth.
Just make sure you have a strong
case for why you deserve it.
That's genius.
It even transitions to new topics better
than most writers and cited their sources.
The difference in result here is enormous.
Purely because I was more specific with what I wanted,
the AI was no longer guessing what I want.
It was doing exactly what I requested.
It can even lighten things up.
Give me a joke for my YouTube audience.
Why couldn't the bicycle stand up by itself?
Because it was two tired.
Well..
-And you had to look that up?
That's not funny, Arthur.
That's not the kind of humor we do on this show.
- So you can see the possibilities
that unlock by understanding prompt engineering
and you're ready to get learning.
Where do you actually start?
The good news is there are already little known
free courses where you can start learning this skill today,
right now, learnprompting.org, which I got some of
these examples from, takes you from the basics all
the way to advanced techniques.
I can't recommend it enough.
And no, I'm not sponsored by them at all.
I just think they're great.
Like I said, it's totally free.
If words like this scare you,
now is the time to fix that.
But back to prompts.
When speaking with the AI, you want to
give it prompts that aren't wildly open ended.
it's helpful to think in terms
of large elements that you need within the
answer when writing your prompt.
So going back to my Mark Twain example,
let's break this down into those large elements.
Please write me a 500 word essay.
that's the length
on the topic "How do I earn more money in 2023?"
that's the topic we want it to hit
with a clear introduction, middle and conclusion, references.
That's the structure of the response that we want.
So now the AI knows exactly how to do that.
But then we say, add elements of
humor in the style of Mark Twain.
So it knows the style that we want.
We're giving it everything it needs
to give us a proper response.
And you can even go one step further than
this and tell the AI who your reader is
and what you're trying to get from your reader.
So here's an example.
The point is, if you include this kind of information
in all of your prompts, you will get far better
results and you will make far more income from the
AI, because the AI knows exactly what you need and
the importance of prompting is even more evident when using
AI image creators like Midjourney.
Here we have the prompt "Portrait of a female rockstar"
then "Portrait of a female rockstar on stage."
They're pretty good.
But now I'm going to do a much more specific
and detailed prompt using a dash of prompt engineering on top.
You can see a few extra
specifically chosen words can make the world of
a difference in detail, style and realism.
You need to think like an AI
before you ask it to do anything.
- Can a robot write a symphony?
Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?
- Can you?
- Ask yourself, before you make any prompt,
Then break that down
into understandable, describable chunks. Try it.
I mean, you can even visit chat.openai.com and
tell it to write you a witty comment for this video.
I'll reply to all my favorites.
I told it to write a short and witty
comment about how I'm totally not scared at all
that AI is going to take my job.
And it came up with this:
Now is the time to be honest with ourselves.
Your job as it currently stands will
not exist in the same way. AI
is going to change it.
And if it's anything like the internet or crypto, it's
going to take the government a while to catch up.
It's going to take regulators a while to catch up
with this stuff, which means people might get left behind.
Employers will use AI and they'll use fewer employees
to get their work done faster and cheaper.
It's no wonder that OpenAI, the
company behind ChatGPT, is funding
extensive research into universal basic income.
If AI wipes out our jobs, we might just need it.
That sounds terrifying, but it doesn't have to be.
It's only scary if you let the future happen to you.
Or worse, you try to hide from it.
If you embrace AI as a tool and you
master communicating with it, the future looks very different.
It looks brighter.
With more opportunity than you've ever had.
You'll be able to produce more every day,
get tasks done more efficiently, summarize key points,
emails, articles, books, develop ideas into apps.
In days, not months, you'll be
able to supercharge your potential.
All because you turn this threatening
future into a world of possibility.
The greatest tool humanity has ever invented
has been dropped into your lap.
What are you going to do with it?