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Cost per word is a bizarre metric to bring up. Since when is volume of words a measure of value or achievement?
by jsheard 11mo ago
Cost per word is a bizarre metric to bring up. Since when is volume of words a measure of value or achievement?
- StilesCrisis 11mo agoIt also puts a thumb on the scale for AI, which tends to emit pages of text to answer simple questions.
- jsheard 11mo agoThe chart is actually words "thought or written" so I guess they are running up the numbers even more by counting Claudes entire inner monologue, on top of what it ultimately outputs.
- garciasn 11mo agoSounds like any post-secondary, graduate student, or management consultant out there being there are, very often, page/word count or hours requirements. Considering the model corpora, wordiness wins out.
- bdangubic 11mo agothese are not just “words” but answers to questions from people who got a job at anthropic had…
- kashyapc 11mo agoIt's not merely cost per word, but it is even more bizarre: "cost per word thought", whatever that is. Most of these "word thoughts" from LLMs of today are just auto-completed large dumps of text.
- sanex 11mo agoThere was a time when these models were novel that if use it to write for me. After a year or so the verboseness and lack of personality got old. Now all I have is a decent proofreader. Maybe they'll take over my job but I'm finding the trend going the other way right now.