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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT by Vanderbilt University

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About the Course

ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your smartphone, if you use them right. ChatGPT can tutor your child in math, generate a meal plan and recipes, write software applications for your business, help you improve your personal cybersecurity, and that is just in the first hour that you use it. This course will teach you how to be an expert user of these generative AI tools. The course will show amazing examples of how you can tap into these generative AI tools' emergent intelligence and reasoning, how you can use them to be more productive day to day, and give you insight into how they work. Large language models respond to instructions and questions posed by users in natural language statements, known as “prompts”. Although large language models will disrupt many fields, most users lack the skills to write effective prompts. Expert users, who understand how to write good prompts, are orders of magnitude more productive and can unlock significantly more creative uses for these tools. This course introduces students to the patterns and approaches for writing effective prompts for large language models. Anyone can take the course and the only required knowledge is basic computer usage skills, such as using a browser and accessing ChatGPT. Students will start with basic prompts and build towards writing sophisticated prompts to solve problems in any domain. By the end of the course, students will have strong prompt engineering skills and be capable of using large language models for a wide range of tasks in their job, business, personal life, and education, such as writing, summarization, game play, planning, simulation, and programming....

Top reviews

MS

Feb 20, 2024

Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT has been a great introduction course. I look forward to diving into additional AI courses. I've even joined a Meetup group to continue learning outside of the classroom!

WA

Apr 17, 2024

I really loved it, I used chatgpt to understand the videos and I'm glad coursera offers context under the videos, this helped me finish the certificate in not a long time, all it takes is dedication.

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By Kiriti S S

Sep 10, 2023

nice

By Nuhed N

Aug 26, 2023

w

By Omer G

Jul 17, 2024

This course was something of a disappointment. The professor is a bit long-winded, and never did show how to ask a simple question, then a follow-up question, then a question after that, etc. to get the response you want and have a conversation go in a good direction. That's one of the most basic uses of ChatGPT. A lot of the "patterns" that he discusses seem more appropriate if you want to build your own chatbot, taking in lots of data from users or sifting through lots of internal data. I can see why his background is in computer science, because he seemed to focus more on the technical aspects of pattern after pattern rather than issues having to do with wording and critical thinking as you have conversations with ChatGPT.

By Lain E

Oct 20, 2024

The instructor spends a lot of time on easy concepts and then lumps more complex concepts together in later lessons. It would be better to do the reverse. Also, not all prompts are included in the reading. A resource guide or some kind of handout with all the discussed prompts would greatly benefit the learner. Finally, it doesn't seem like anyone is answering questions in the discussion forums. Since this is a paid class, I expected a TA would periodically review the questions there to provide greater insight.

By Irina S

Sep 2, 2024

Professor is engaging and provides clear explanations. The examples however are a bit limiting in their applicability to other areas (hard to see how to generalize them to other useful contexts). The examples were entertaining and interesting to follow, but perhaps that should not be the goal. Perhaps more information should have been offered on how to bring other tools into the chat to help solve problems. I guess it's ok overall given that the professor had to distill information in an emerging field.

By Karen J

Nov 12, 2024

I really enjoyed many aspects of this course, but it assumed more knowledge about computer science than I possess. Maybe this was not the right course for this, but I was hoping for something very very basic. However, I did learn many interesting takeaways and being married to a developer for 30 years really helped my understanding. If I did not have that I would have been hopelessly lost at some points.

By Joanna C

Nov 21, 2023

The content was interesting and the instructor was very knowledgeable but I found the content very repetitive, the videos were too long and I thought that a lot of the concepts could have been explained in shorter videos or in a shorter course overall.

By Muhammad H A

Jul 30, 2023

This course is incredibly fascinating. I learn a lot of magnificent things. But one thing that I face, the links given in the reading material are not working. Please check those links.

By Karin E

Jan 30, 2024

The content is great, however rather lengthy presentation. would be great if the readings could be downloaded in a summarised way

By Heinrich W

Jun 20, 2024

Die Aufgaben/Übungen waren nicht immer eindeutig und auch die Übersetzung ins Deutsche war teilweise fehlerhaft.

By Ramon V A

Oct 2, 2024

Too long. I would go straight to the point. It would be good a summary cheat-sheet at the end of the course.

By Bobak M

Sep 13, 2024

It was decent, but could have been half the length of time. Too verbose

By Makdad A M A

Oct 11, 2024

The lesson explanation was long and boring.

By slvn y

Sep 20, 2023

Can be kept more examples and topics

By Harsha H R

Dec 11, 2024

I felt the videos were too long.

By Luciano R

Sep 7, 2024

A bit too basic, and outdated-

By SHEIK M A

Nov 11, 2024

GOOOD COUSE

By Harshal D

Aug 19, 2024

helpfull

By Neha K

Nov 4, 2023

helpful

By Phillip B

Jun 9, 2024

Wow. Disappointing. A niche use case as a "motivating" example by someone who "didn't see this coming" which would indicate a lack of intimate knowledge of the space. Not a thought leader I would invest valuable resources on. Moving on with said resources. ie time and coin

By Debra W

Nov 24, 2024

Over 1.5 years old in 3.5. It is not helpful for me. There should have been more research done for the curriculum design. Prompts have changed and AI far smarter.

By MC R

Nov 1, 2024

Prompt Eng was a great class, but this adv data analytics is too confusing. Do I have to pay to get on GTP-4??? How do I access the free version

By Linda B

Sep 5, 2024

it is less relevant now there is 4.0 available

By Γιώργος Κ

Feb 22, 2024

unnecessarily wordy

By Abhishek A

Nov 27, 2024

ok ok