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The book gives you practical prompting frameworks (R-T-F, C-A-R-E, CPAAS), shows you the ins and outs of examples (few-shot learning), chain-of-thought prompting, and even how to \"assign\" personalities to AI for better, more trustworthy answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan AI really \"think\"? How smart are today's systems?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou'll go behind the scenes of AI benchmark testing-from language and math to image recognition and programming. See why machine intelligence scores are both impressive and fundamentally different from human IQ-and why true \"understanding\" remains elusive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOpportunities and risks-AI's double edge.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom smarter medicine and personalized education to creativity on demand, AI offers huge opportunities. 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