[LINK] AI Prompt Engineers

[David]

On 12/01/2024 8:42 am, Tom Worthington wrote:
> On 10/1/24 18:48, David wrote:
>> On 10/01/2024 16:35, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>>
>> ... interpret an abstract requirement and phrase a suitable question to ask a machine ...
>> Why not just employ a real expert in the first place and dispense with the man/machine/man in the middle ...
>
> Information retrieval (IR) is its own specialist area. In the past people who composed queries were called librarians, data analysts ...

I thought librarians _organised _information so specialists in any given area could find what they were looking for themselves. Hence the subject of bibliography, and the Dewey numbering system.

Data analysts are probably more diverse, often they have considerable statistical training (e.g. actuaries), and in any case they deal with hard data not some LLM-driven interface with "the internet" or even a whole library.

For a a really good example of data analysis in action, try OnlyFacts at https://onlyfacts.io   This organisation was put together by Anthony Macali (Covid Live) & Juliette O'Brien following their individual work during the first few years of the Covid pandemic, for which they each received an OAM in the New Year Honors List.

But whether it's Librarians or Data Analysts, specialist information is provided by specialists.

_David Lochrin_