We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Danielle Radin a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Danielle thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Risk taking is something we’re really interested in and we’d love to hear the story of a risk you’ve taken.

As an author on two books about artificial intelligence I can confidently say anyone who is diving into the world of
AI takes a risk because it is so new. There are still questions that will become apparent as more time passes like, is it ethical? What are the long term ramifications on the job market? What is it doing with the data I feed it?

But through prompt engineering, we are able to have more control over the final output and what we choose to say to large language models. It’s a way for people with backgrounds in writing and rhetoric to dive into machine learning and artificial intelligence. That’s why I helped to create the certified associate prompt engineer course, to allow humanities minds to understand and accept AI as a powerful tool.

Danielle, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I come from a background as a journalist and author. I have reported for news stations all over California, often times covering tech. My first book, Everybody’s Been Hacked! Was a culmination of my tech reporting and cybercrime stories in San Diego.

When I first heard about ChatGPT, I was amazed like all of us were. I couldn’t believe how fast it was learning. And I became fascinated with writing the correct prompt to get more accurate information. In a sense, it’s what you have to do in a journalism interview: word the question right to get the best answer from the interviewee.

I published two books about ChatGPT and prompt engineering. Since then I have participated in the global conference on AI Ethics out of Dubai and helped companies and small businesses understand prompt engineering.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

As a millennial, when I was growing up we had more of a mentality that you graduate school, go into one career, try to be the best at that, go from job to job in that career so that you can climb to the top and eventually be successful. But nowadays with social media, free online courses in anything you can think of, and the fast-paced ever changing world of technology, you can literally be whatever you want. You can be a student in anything, master it, and have multiple careers in your life. I think that is part of the reason this is one of the most exciting times to live in: everyone in theory has infinite potential and infinite resources.

How did you build your audience on social media?

I first built my audience on social media through reporting. A few viral stories I did early on, like being one of the only local reporters to cover the death of Merle Haggard and interview his family, helped build an online audience and show me what story format viewers on different platforms want to see.

Then in San Diego I was hired as the first and only digital correspondent for NBC where I reported on even more platforms that people just weren’t doing back then: Snapchat, IG stories and others. That led to going over to Fox to anchor the online live digital newscast in the market.

Then during the pandemic, I was working for CBS at that point and one of the only professional reporters covering the Gabby Petito case- a huge story of international interest- on TikTok and Dubsmash. I also covered the Depp vs. Heard trial. I think viewers appreciate having a reliable source of information that is accurate and packed full of the latest details in 3 minutes or less.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://Www.instagram.com/danielleradinMMJ
• Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/danielleradin

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