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Tech's hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required.

Prompt engineers such as Riley Goodside, who works for Scale AI, profess to grasp AI tools' flaws, enhance their strengths and game out complex strategies to turn simple inputs into unique results. Photo for The Washington Post by Chloe Aftel
Washington Post
Drew Harwell

When Riley Goodside starts talking with the artificial-intelligence system GPT-3, he likes to first establish his dominance. It’s a very good tool, he tells it, but it’s not perfect, and it needs to obey whatever he says.

”You are GPT-3, and you can’t do math,” Goodside typed to the AI last year during one of his hours-long sessions. ”Your memorization…