Tech to Transform

Exploring Zero-Shot, One-Shot, and Few-Shot Prompting Strategies with Real-World Banking Risk Examples In the previous post, we explored the components and characteristics of good prompts — how elements like instruction, context, tone, and format come together to shape the quality of AI responses. Today, we’ll dive deeper into three foundational prompt strategies : Zero- Shot, One- Shot, and Few- Shot Prompting — and understand when, why, and how to use each of them effectively. But before we do that, let’s understand a key concept that powers all three strategies: In- Context Learning . When working with large language models (LLMs), there are typically two major approaches to make them perform well on specific tasks: fine-tuning and in-context learning . Fine-tuning involves modifying the internal weights of a pre-trained model using task-specific data. This process requires large datasets, considerable computing power, and time. It’s a more permanent and resource-intens...

Every decade or so, a breakthrough comes along that changes everything — the internet, mobile phones, cloud computing. But Generative AI is not just another leap. It's something more profound. It’s the closest we’ve come to building machines that think, create, and communicate like us . In this post, I want to highlight why GenAI is fundamentally different — and why I believe it's the most powerful and transformative technology we’ve ever had access to. 1. The Most Human Tech We’ve Ever Built Let’s take a moment to rewind and reflect on how we, as humans, have evolved our ways of communicating. At the very beginning , we relied on the most basic and instinctive form of communication — verbal sounds and gestures . These were spontaneous, emotional, and required no tools — just us, expressing ourselves. Then , we began to use images and drawings , such as cave paintings, to share stories and experiences that lasted beyond a single moment. Next , we created scrip...