We don't teach children guitar to make them future music stars, although that might be a positive side effect. We teach kids music because it is enjoyable, social, calming, challenging and more. Those things don't go away because there's now a short cut.
We're still teaching and learning music decades after the invention of the drum machine, the sequencer and the player piano. Why do we do this, if it's no longer necessary to actually play an instrument to make music? One major reason is because the actual musical output is only a small part of the human motivation to make music. See above for some others. I mean, people still play jazz (including me), and no one listens to that!
Prompt engineering, on the other hand, is a hyped up industry misnomer. It's not engineering. It's asking for things. And that's fine! Have at it.
But there's nothing anyone can teach to a child about prompt engineering that will be any use to them by the time they're 18. Maybe by that point they'll just have to think of a song to create it or something.
I find it strange that you put "memes, tiktoks, wearing a giant chicken outfit" in the desirable outcomes section. We live in a world filled with talents of all sorts - musical, analytical, comedic - but increasingly these are being "democratised" away, first by social media and now AI, in favour of the dual attractors of marketing and sales. A future in which these are the only remaining useful skills depresses me more than I can express.
Thankfully, music has been around longer than history and prompt engineering is only a couple of years old. Long term, I know where I'm putting my money.
Says it as it is! 👌
No, seriously don't.
We don't teach children guitar to make them future music stars, although that might be a positive side effect. We teach kids music because it is enjoyable, social, calming, challenging and more. Those things don't go away because there's now a short cut.
We're still teaching and learning music decades after the invention of the drum machine, the sequencer and the player piano. Why do we do this, if it's no longer necessary to actually play an instrument to make music? One major reason is because the actual musical output is only a small part of the human motivation to make music. See above for some others. I mean, people still play jazz (including me), and no one listens to that!
Prompt engineering, on the other hand, is a hyped up industry misnomer. It's not engineering. It's asking for things. And that's fine! Have at it.
But there's nothing anyone can teach to a child about prompt engineering that will be any use to them by the time they're 18. Maybe by that point they'll just have to think of a song to create it or something.
I find it strange that you put "memes, tiktoks, wearing a giant chicken outfit" in the desirable outcomes section. We live in a world filled with talents of all sorts - musical, analytical, comedic - but increasingly these are being "democratised" away, first by social media and now AI, in favour of the dual attractors of marketing and sales. A future in which these are the only remaining useful skills depresses me more than I can express.
Thankfully, music has been around longer than history and prompt engineering is only a couple of years old. Long term, I know where I'm putting my money.
Have so many thoughts on this -- mostly conflicted. But yeah def agree we're moving into a different world. For better or for worse