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Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by avibhu on Saturday March 11, 2023 @02:33PM (#35111795)
Tangential: you can finetune something like flan-ul2 to do quote extraction using examples generated from chatgpt. If you have a good enough GPU, it should help cut down costs significantly
Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by specproc on Saturday March 11, 2023 @02:36PM (#35111831)
Nice, that sounds like it's worth exploring. Much appreciated.

Again though, it's the zero-effort part that's appealing. I'm on a very small team and getting that to close to the same standard will take time for a ham-fisted clod like myself. Worth giving a shot all the same though, thanks again.

Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by pfdietz on Saturday March 11, 2023 @03:20PM (#35112258)
It's interesting what you can do with ChatGPT with few shot learning. It generalizes at the drop of a hat, often correctly.
Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by leobg on Saturday March 11, 2023 @04:05PM (#35112696)
The zero shot ability is convenient. But for tasks that you need to get done millions of times, I’d much rather spend $10 on GPU compute and maybe a day of training data generation to train a T5 which I then “own”.

Also, running your own specialized model locally can be much faster than using someone’s API.

Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by specproc on Sunday March 12, 2023 @12:59AM (#35117193)
Sure, purely a time issue for me. I'm not the most skilled in this area, and I've got a load of core stuff I need to keep on top of.

I think we're not far off having something equivalent that can be pulled from Huggingface and run on a near consumer grade GPU.

For now, I'll hang tight and see how things progress. Don't disagree.

Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by leobg on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:36AM (#35117414)
Maybe one day you’ll be able to tell ChatGPT what kind of model you need and it’ll automatically select the right architecture, gather the training data, and commission the training using the cheapest and/or fastest provider. :)
Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by winddude on Saturday March 11, 2023 @04:07PM (#35112716)
Don't they have in the ToS you aren't allowed to use outputs for training downstream? Which is a little ridiculous, considering it's ToS.

But yea, they cheap cost and lack of training is making me a take a long hard look at how I'm implementing more traditional NLP solutions.

Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by swyx on Saturday March 11, 2023 @11:35PM (#35116711)
> Don't they have in the ToS you aren't allowed to use outputs for training downstream?

you mean this? "Data submitted through the API is no longer used for service improvements (including model training) unless the organization opts in" https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis

Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by winddude on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @12:22AM (#35242529)
was referring to "(iii) use output from the Services to develop models that compete with OpenAI; (iv) except as permitted through the API, use any automated or programmatic method to extract data or output from the Services, including scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction;" ~ https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use

I think I missed the exception for API, how ever not sure where they are, but seems to be fine based on alpaca. Also interesting they are so hard on web scraping and and extraction, lol. But wow, that is a poorly worded paragraph.

Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by hooande on Saturday March 11, 2023 @09:39PM (#35115849)
I do this. It works.
Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by icelancer on Sunday March 12, 2023 @03:05AM (#35117566)
Can you elaborate? Did some brief Google searching but had issues putting it together. We have thousands of documents and data stores we'd like to parse using GPT-3.5 (or the new ChatGPT API) and have been thinking of pretraining to cut things down. Thank you!
Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by hooande on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:50PM (#35160330)
contact me at the email in my profile