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I notice that when I ask ChatGPT a question the answers I get back seem more verbose than they were a year ago. Where a 1-2 line response would be sufficient GP
by Ianjit 1y ago
I notice that when I ask ChatGPT a question the answers I get back seem more verbose than they were a year ago. Where a 1-2 line response would be sufficient GPT delivers a sprawling essay. Overall the value of the answer has probably gone down, but tokens are up.
- noosphr 1y agoYou can quite easily ask it to summarize the result in a sentence or paragraph. LLMs have no other way to compute than write text and the more text they write the more compute they do. You only care about the final output.
- Ianjit 1y agoI do. It typically goes on to write a preamble about why it gave a long answer before finally providing a summary. Token stuffing.
- noosphr 1y agoThis is akin to complaining about the overhead of radix conversion between decimal and binary in early computers. Unless you figure out how to talk in latent space directly to an llm the preamble is the cost you pay for getting the answer back in English.
- bmacho 1y agoI've just set my (free) ChatGPT to "Robot" in style options, so far I like its style and level of detailedness