Re:OpenAI is too cheap to beat
by phillipcarter on Thursday October 12, 2023 @05:50PM
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Codegen is an area that seems to have the best breakout performance compared to the big FMs. In hindsight it should be obvious given that openai created Codex.
However, I am skeptical that smaller and more focused models will do well for more general tasks. I’ve found gpt-4 to just be flatly excellent for tasks that involve emitting a custom DSL and customer-provided business context (the latter being something we cannot train for, not without immense expense).
They trained a custom model for this. Better accuracy, sure, but I was a little surprised to watch how much faster it is than GPT4.
Based on their testing, they’ve become believers in domain specific smaller models, especially for performance.