prompt_fails.txt

Why do you think the prompt failed?
Typically a prompt fails for one of three reasons:
- Cutoff: the training data is cutoff before a point where it could know the answer
- Obscurity: the context necessary to answer is too niche to appear in training data
- Hallucination: the AI made something up instead of stating it didn't know
- Intelligence: the task was too complicated for the current state of the art models
- Direction: the prompt didn't provide sufficient guidance on how to answer

What does this failure tell you about what AI is good at / bad at?
The default answer from AI often isn't near the best it can do. When presented with correct context and guidance, AI can do a lot more than you expect!

Can you think of any ways to fix this prompt?
We'll be learning about the five principles of prompting in the next section: compare your ideas here to what you come up with after watching the next section.