AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Explanation

This is Zero-shot Prompting because:

1. No examples provided: The student asks the generative AI model to explain cloud computing without providing any example responses or context beforehand.

2. Direct instruction: The model is expected to generate a response based solely on the instruction without any demonstration of what a good response should look like.

3. Comparison with other prompting techniques:

   • Few-shot Prompting: Would involve providing several examples of similar questions and answers before asking the target question.
   • Chain-of-Thought Prompting: Would involve asking the model to show its reasoning step-by-step before providing the final answer.
   • Contextual Prompting: Would involve providing additional context or background information to guide the response.

4. Zero-shot learning capability: This demonstrates the model's ability to understand and respond to tasks it hasn't been explicitly trained on with examples.

Zero-shot prompting is particularly useful when you want the model to perform a task without providing specific examples, relying instead on the model's pre-trained knowledge and understanding of language patterns.