Re:Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:24AM
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The author of `aider` - an OSS GPT-powered coding assistant - is on HN, and says[0] he has benchmarks showing gradual decline in quality of GPT-4-Turbo, especially wrt. "lazy coding" - i.e. actually completing a coding request, vs. peppering it with " ... write this yourself ... " comments.
That on top of my own experiences, and heaps of anecdotes over the last year.
> How would they honestly be getting worse?
The models behind GPT-4 (which is rumored to be a mixture model)? Tuning, RLHF (which has long been demonstrated to dumb the model down). The GPT-4, as in the thing that produces responses you get through API? Caching, load-balancing, whatever other tricks they do to keep the costs down and availability up, to cope with the growth of the number of requests.
That on top of my own experiences, and heaps of anecdotes over the last year.
> How would they honestly be getting worse?
The models behind GPT-4 (which is rumored to be a mixture model)? Tuning, RLHF (which has long been demonstrated to dumb the model down). The GPT-4, as in the thing that produces responses you get through API? Caching, load-balancing, whatever other tricks they do to keep the costs down and availability up, to cope with the growth of the number of requests.
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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39361705