Google's 9 Hour AI Prompt Engineering Course In 20 Minutes

The podcast episode summarizes Google's Prompting Essentials course, offering a condensed version of its nine-hour content. It introduces a five-step framework for prompt design: Task, Context, References, Evaluate, and Iterate, which the speaker abbreviates as "tiny crabs ride enormous iguanas." The episode also covers four iteration methods—revisiting the framework, shortening prompts, trying different phrasing, and introducing constraints—summarized by the mnemonic "Brahman saves tragic idiots." It addresses multimodal prompting, potential issues like hallucinations and biases, and emphasizes a human-in-the-loop approach for responsible AI use. The podcast further explores practical applications of prompting for tasks like email writing, data analysis, presentation building, and advanced techniques such as prompt chaining, chain of thought, tree of thought prompting, and creating AI agents for simulation and expert feedback.