[ExI] did gpt4 get dumber?

[Jason Resch]

You're not the only one who thinks so:

https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1681614284613099520?s=20

Jason

On Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 8:49 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> It felt like GPT got dumber while I was away.  Gordon suggested that I got
> smarter, but I don’t think that is the case.  Chess players know that
> phenomenon well: humans definitely did get better during the era of chess
> software development, as we found out if we have old computer software:
> what once beat us we can now trounce.
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> But… I was mostly away from all internet for about four weeks while on the
> road, and there has been minimal GPT use for the two weeks since I returned
> because of circumstances.  So I didn’t get smarter since the first week of
> June, I got dumber.
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> But GPT seems to have gotten dumber still, and I have a possible
> explanation.  OpenAI is selling subscriptions like crazy.  We can safely
> assume they are not adding processors as fast as they are adding
> subscribers, so it would be reasonable to assume they need to spend less
> computing cycles per response, which would make it feel dumber than before.
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> GPT hipsters, does that sound about right?
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> spike
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