Boston Dato

Artificial intelligence is taking over the world.

Slightly drastic, but that seems to be the sentiment of literally everyone. That, or it’s going to save humanity. Generally speaking, I try to be more down-the-middle in my views about major topics (American politics don’t help with that). Rather than becoming too extreme one way or the other, I build my own opinion through research from multiple perspectives.

Through my own research on AI, I see it as a helpful tool. Can it take jobs? Sure, absolutely. Do we as people, citizens of the modern world, need to stop worrying about the end-all be-all worst case scenario and figure out how to use it beneficially? 100%. I try to see it more as the calculator. For anyone whose career depended on solving logarithms and graphing exponentials in calculus by hand, the calculator flipped their world upside down. But for the rest of us, we adapted to use it as an aid in our own research, giving more people than ever the ability to solve complex math and go further than humans had ever had access to. AI can do the same for another generation, if we focus on learning it instead of fearing its general existence.

A couple of weeks ago I started my freshman year at Miami University (of Ohio, a necessary clarification), majoring in data analytics and minoring in computer science. If you can’t tell from that sentence, or anything that I’ve written so far, I’m a proud nerd, and I always have been. This is why I am so interested in Artificial Intelligence, in learning about how exactly it works and how I can use it in my future.

Fueled by this intrigue, and by a desire to make some easy money as a student, I decided to start learning how to become a prompt engineer. Well, I found an article that described it as an easy side hustle, used ChatGPT to find out what exactly a prompt engineer does, and am now still using ChatGPT (among other intelligence models) to teach myself prompt engineering.

As I go through this self-guided course, I plan on using this blog to track my journey and record my milestones, as a way for me to reflect on my progress and to market myself in the future. This blog could be my personal gallery and my gateway to freelancing, or a random WordPress site that exists alone in the aether forever. No matter which it is, I’ll have learned something useful, and that’s what’s important.

But the supposedly easy money would be nice, too. Just throwing that out there.