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Isn’t prompt engineering a human way to explore the latent space of the model to create the mathematical interactions we want/deem useful? A human way of traversing the hyperdimensionalty. Given your background, would you say that prompt engineering is about finding the spaces in latent space the bound the model’s “knowledge” for our uses?

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Yes, but I think the folks who work on technical alignment would like to have stronger guarantees—I think they would like to end up with formal guarantees that the AI will only be helpful, and not harmful.

I agree, prompt engineering is a fuzzy subset of the possible space that could provide the guarantees.

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