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14 Jun 2023 Latent Space Emergency Pod: OpenAI's new Functions API, 75% Price Drop, 4x Context Length (w/ Alex Volkov, Simon Willison, Riley Goodside, Joshua Lochner, Stefania Druga, Eric Elliott, Mayo Oshin et al)
“Cuz because I just say like, just use this and stop bothering me with your prompts. It still doesn't solve what I was talking about today, which is literally I think three hours ago I posted this so it's kind of fresh.”
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…Yeah, most definitely. And, and to just give folks in the audience some context around this, you can actually run different models by specifying the, the exact model that you want. Mm-hmm. Either the, the three 14 or the what, six 13 There's two new models. The just using GPT4 and the model call will tell it, use the latest one. So it'll use the new one if you just do that. I wanna move to Sean. Sean as a developer for Small Devrel. They got like a bunch of exciting centers of like running agents, oh, God, and writing code, et cetera. The whole point about them five tuning a model that actually understands several of the functions that you send and you can provide types and kind of the, the, the call structure, the arguments with types. How does that affect you know, you and your friends in the agent making space that basically you write tools and then you also use some prompting to, to, to kinda ask the LM to run those tools. Now that we've kind of moved this thought process into the lm, you had a great post recently about different types of approaches. How does that play into there? And if you wanna introduce your, your thinking around this would be, first of all Alex, you're getting really freaking good at this. These are amazing questions. You're juggling all of us, like really well. Just round of applause, even though we can't applaud. Okay. So the functions api, I. Eliminate some work that I needed to do for small developer Anyway I have some literally some open issues that I can just close now. Cuz because I just say like, just use this and stop bothering me with your prompts. It still doesn't solve what I was talking about today, which is literally I think three hours ago I posted this so it's kind of fresh. Which is this distinction between l LM Core and Code Shell versus LLM Shell and Code Core. And I think everyone in the agent's world is moving on to that world. The LM Shell Code core, I'll, I'll explain this a little bit later, but this Functions API and OpenAI in general is very much in an LLM centric view of the world that the LM calls out two functions, execute stuff, and then it goes back into the function into the LLM again to do everything so. You know, I'll characterize, I don't know if open I would agree with this. I wanna characterize open AI is always wanting to build the agi. I always wanting to build the God model, always wanting to, to go back to the God model, to decide all the things. And I think the engineers who, who want more control, want more security, want more privacy, all that, all this stuff want to once it unbundle the lms, put, put make it, make individual components smart. But but not to have it in central control. And you, when you see things like Voyager, it, it's basically using LMS as a drafting tool to write code. And once you have code that, you know, works, just use code, it's faster, it's cheaper, it's more secure. And I, I think that's the fundamental attention cuz that's an, that's the feature that doesn't have OpenAI at the center of it. Yeah, that's, that's, that's definitely A shift towards how open the eye wants it versus potentially being able to switch out, open the eye at some point. Right. So, so I guess and maybe Riley you can touch upon this a little bit, how much kind of functionality like this, which is not only prompt and, you know, better logic and, and better understanding and inference, but significant kind of changes to the api, which other folks and players in the space ne don't, don't, don't necessarily have, I think Google really something where like you could, you could provide an example of adjacent output. I haven't seen anything from Claude, but Riley, I would love your, your thought here. How does this kind of differentiate open the ai just from a developer perspective of like this is our ecosystem, this is how we do things in our ecosystem. And if you, you know, if you want it easier for the model to select whatever, whatever you want, you should use open AI and it's gonna be harder for you to switch. How do you think about that?…
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