Billionaire Mark Cuban has a piece of advice for anyone looking for a side job or even a career: ask the right questions.
Note: We updated the article on October 30, 2024, and added an explanation about AI prompting.
Who is giving the advice? Mark Cuban is a U.S. billionaire who distinguished himself with his entrepreneurial spirit from a young age. In a video from CNBC, he mentally transports himself back to his youth. What would he do today as a 16-year-old to achieve a career and wealth? His answer is short, and ultimately, young people need to learn just one thing: to ask questions to an AI.
The Perfect Questions for ChatGPT
Mark Cuban is primarily known in the U.S. as the former majority owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks. He has amassed his wealth through investments and worked as a solo entrepreneur in various industries since he was a teenager. Nowadays, however, he would focus on language models like ChatGPT as a 16-year-old.
What does Mark Cuban advise regarding AI? According to him, anyone can just type something into chat windows. But it is an art to ask specific questions in order to leverage AI’s potential. Especially small and medium-sized businesses lack experience and capacity in this area. Therefore, tech-savvy youth should practice asking AI the perfect questions.
According to Cuban, it is possible for anyone to enter this young industry. A degree is not needed; just practice.
What is the point? Asking the right questions to AI is a relatively new profession that has emerged with the rapid developments in recent years. As a so-called “Prompt Engineer,” one takes advantage of the AI’s ability to quickly match large amounts of data. The more sophisticated the task, the more satisfactory the AI’s response is, whether in the form of text or an image.
With such a job, it is said that one can earn 50,000 euros a year (via jobvector). However, the billionaire does not advise settling for a simple job. Rather, one should acquire this special skill and then approach companies to teach them how to use AI.
Cuban, meanwhile, does not go into detail on how exactly this should work. He also leaves it open whether he masters this art.
A group of students from the U.S. probably hardly needs this advice; they have been using Artificial Intelligence regularly, as an instructor at a college had to find out. Even a very simple task was enough reason to trigger the AI: Professor assigns students a simple task – but they still use a brazen aid
