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I agree, I only use 4 because by far the thing that matters most for my usage is the quality of the output at this stage in the game. But 3.5 is generally avai
by furyofantares 3y ago
I agree, I only use 4 because by far the thing that matters most for my usage is the quality of the output at this stage in the game.
But 3.5 is generally available, fast, and costs a WHOLE LOT less for API users; those are real capabilities that matter though by "capable" you only meant the quality of the output. It's worth comparing to 3.5 also.
- doctoboggan 3y agoAt first I was skeptical of the difference between 3.5 and 4 but there really is a large gap in the models understanding of complex issues between them. I make a habit of always selecting gpt4 but forgot to yesterday. Within 3 responses I could immediately tell I was interacting with a less capable model.
- icelancer 3y agoIt really is tremendous for code fuzzing/optimizing. When I hit the rate limit on ChatGPT and switch to 3.5-turbo, the quality difference is immediately noticeable, so much so that I finally set up my own private ChatGPT instance with an API key for GPT-4 so I stopped running into these issues while coding.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoEver since I got API access to GPT-4, I don't even bother with using ChatGPT proper (I need to cancel the subscription one of these days). I tend to use it in bursts, so smoothing usage by rate limits doesn't work for me. Is it more expensive this way? At the rate I'm using it, probably 2-3x. Is it worth it? Absolutely. I've never in my life felt so happy to pay for something per request.
- icelancer 3y agoYeah, I gotta just do that as well - convert to using GPT-4 entirely by rate and by API. I use the plugins and new features on ChatGPT though, and it's nice to have a single interface to use 3.5-turbo for comparison, Code Interpreter once in awhile, etc. So I'll probably just keep it. It's $20/month, after all.
- cocoflunchy 3y agoSmall tip, you can bookmark https://chat.openai.com/?model=gpt-4 https://chat.openai.com/?model=gpt-4 to avoid the click
- doctoboggan 3y agoI actually use it through the API playground and not the chat interface. I like the explicit control it gives me over the context and system prompts.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoSame here, though GPT-3.5 surprised me positively. I felt something was off, but didn't realize what, until I unexpectedly hit the context window limit - at which point it dawned on me that I forgot to switch to GPT-4... I didn't notice earlier, because GPT-3.5 managed to give solid answers to a relatively simple programming task I gave it (generating a single-page, dependency-free image gallery I could just drop on a server as HTML file and have it work).