AI whisperer

noun

A person with a knack for persuading an artificial intelligence program to produce a desired kind of output.

Meanings

nounAI whisperer (plural AI whisperers)

plural AI whisperers

  1. informalA person with a knack for persuading an artificial intelligence program to produce a desired kind of output.

    Krizhevsky left Google several years later, […] and he has since taken on a bit of a mythical status. (Ferguson called him an “AI whisperer.”)

    2018 May 9, Andrew J. Hawkins, “Inside Waymo's Strategy to Grow the Best Brains for Self-Driving Cars”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 09 May 2018
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    Prompt Engineer. Also called an “AI whisperer,” a prompt engineer is someone who creates effective prompts for getting the desired results from a language model. This is essentially what you’re learning from this book

    [2023, Guy Hart-Davis, Killer ChatGPT Prompts: Harness the Power of AI for Success and Profit, John Wiley & Sons, page 41

    “It’s like an AI whisperer,” says Albert Phelps, a prompt engineer at Mudano, part of consultancy firm Accenture in Leytonstone, England. “You’ll often find prompt engineers come from a history, philosophy, or English language background, because it’s wordplay. You're trying to distill the essence or meaning of something into a limited number of words.”

    2023 March 29, Conrad Quilty-Harper, “$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs Appears in Red-Hot Market”, in Bloomberg
  2. informalOne who is skilled with artificial intelligence programs.

    “What do you think it was trying to tell us?” Troy asked. “You’re the AI whisperer,” Enda said.

    2020, Corey J. White, Repo Virtual, Macmillan + ORM, page 220
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    The Nassir name bought her more trust in pirate circles than Karpe would’ve[…] Adda kept hers as a reminder for anyone who met Pel that the weird AI whisperer was his big sister, and they’d have a lot more than a couple of pirates to tangle with if they messed with him.

    2018, R. E. Stearns, Mutiny at Vesta, Simon and Schuster, page 116

    “But you're the AI whisperer. I mean, the entropy sweeper thinks you're its best friend. And now Brana has a name I didn't even know about, but you do. Why do all the AIs I program love you so much?”

    2020 May 5, Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe, Disney Electronic Content, →ISBN
Cite this entry
APA

AI whisperer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/AI%20whisperer

MLA

“AI whisperer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/AI%20whisperer. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “AI whisperer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/AI%20whisperer.

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