Did you see the headline(Opens in a new window) about an AI job that pays $335,000 per year without the need for a computer engineering background? It's no joke: The role of "AI prompt engineer" is a real profession. But while it would be amazing to make that kind of money in an emerging field with little to no experience, it's not that simple. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools—including ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, Midjourney, Dall-E, and others—require that users speak their language. Ostensibly, that language is natural-sounding, everyday English (or whatever other human languages your chatbot of choice supports). The text fed into the AI to elicit a response is called a prompt.