Tips for using OpenAI’s lower end models

Question

I&rsquo;ve struggled to get good results from openai&rsquo;s lower cost models like Curie, Babbage, and Ada.Does anyone have tips or tricks to squeeze the most performance out of these? Or specific tasks that they are able to excel at?

cloudking · Accepted Answer

This just hit the front page https://www.buildt.ai/blog/incorrectusageDiscussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34702349

gardenhedge · Answer

These models generally sucked until recently which is why there is so much craze about ChatGPT. They finally got it (somewhat) right.

speedgoose · Answer

I found them pretty bad even when fine tuned for a simple classification task. I decided to ignore them, Davinci is too much better.

Tips for using OpenAI’s lower end models

I’ve struggled to get good results from openai’s lower cost models like Curie, Babbage, and Ada.
Does anyone have tips or tricks to squeeze the most performance out of these? Or specific tasks that they are able to excel at?

This just hit the front page https://www.buildt.ai/blog/incorrectusage
Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34702349

These models generally sucked until recently which is why there is so much craze about ChatGPT. They finally got it (somewhat) right.

I found them pretty bad even when fine tuned for a simple classification task. I decided to ignore them, Davinci is too much better.