Prompt engineering is essentially the skill of refining and inputting text commands for generative AI programs like ChatGPT. The better at it you are, the more effectively you can prompt it into tasks like writing emails or reports, or even putting together PowerPoint presentations.
“How you ask for something [from a generative AI tool] is very critical,” says Agarwal, the founder of online educational platform edX, which was acquired by 2U in 2021. He’s also a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and has served on the CNBC Technology Executive Council Advisory Board