I’m convinced this is group hallucination. It must be so interesting to work at OpenAI, knowing you didn’t change a thing, and seeing that because of random chance, some small fraction of 100M users have all tricked each other that suddenly, something is different.
Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4
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Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4
#122I’m convinced this is group hallucination. It must be so interesting to work at OpenAI, knowing you didn’t change a thing, and seeing that because of random chance, some small fraction of 100M users have all tricked each other that suddenly, something is different.
I think it's more likely that people are confused, and OpenAI is not making things any clearer either. AFAIK, OpenAI has repeatedly stated that GPT4 hasn't changed. People repeatedly states that when they use ChatGPT, they get a difference experience today than before. Both can be true at the same time, as ChatGPT is a "packaged" experience of GPT4, so if you use the API versions, nothing has likely changed. But Chat…
Isn't the thread about ChatGPT? I mean it is helpful to know that they are not the same (I personally was not clear on this myself, so I, at least, benefitted from your comment), but I think the thread is just about Chat GPT.
Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4
#123Anecdotal: I introduced my doctor to ChatGPT and Bard many months ago and they were impressed. Fast forward a few days ago and I asked them if they had used either since. They said it was far inferior to Google, so no. So I asked them to show me an example. Basically any medical question was answered with “go ask a doctor”. I suppose because of liability concerns. Both were basically useless. So this decreased perfor…
I don't understand your anecdote. I'm able to ask it medical questions and get answers, for example: https://chat.openai.com/share/75f94000-552f-42d6-aadf-198fd9... https://chat.openai.com/share/0933abf7-1015-41b5-9a49-ca2b6e... Whether someone should trust the answers is a different question.
Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4
#124I’m convinced this is group hallucination. It must be so interesting to work at OpenAI, knowing you didn’t change a thing, and seeing that because of random chance, some small fraction of 100M users have all tricked each other that suddenly, something is different.
Can you provide some evidence to back that up? Especially because OpenAI _has_ been tinkering with ChatGPT - by trying to limit jailbreaks.
People have a strong prior that these kinds of changes will reduce model performance (because you're limiting your model), so the burden is on you to show that performance hasn't degraded.
Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4
#125As with any technology, we should predict the novelty to wear off and the rough edges to become more apparent. Peoples’ expectations have changed.
On the flip side, the ChatGPT interface has also changed (regardless of the underlying model). Any context you add to an LLM prompt will steer the LLM’s output, better or not.
We know for a fact ChatGPT uses a different/additional prompt to the API, as ChatGPT always has the current date. This changed in the ChatGPT interface around May 13th, around the same time as OpenAI claimed the model was identical. The addition of Plugins/web browsing around that time also made it easier to pollute your prompt, if either were enabled.
We also know that ChatGPT is running on different infra (based on latency diffs), so even if it’s the same model, it’s possible it’s configured ever so differently.
And finally, we also know there’s a new model (woohoo function calling!).
As an API user, my personal experience with GPT-4 is very similar to when it first came out. The hype was very high (AGI in months!) and the reality has been quite different.
GPT-4 is an amazing mirror of society, but it’s only worth what you put in.
Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you provide some side by side examples?
This is the strongest point of evidence I have that the phenomenon isn't real - One can very easily recreate prompts and share two links from different eras, yet we never see that. My guess is that the complainers spent a lot of time finding narrow queries that worked once and now, the horrors of stochasticity are breaking their ability to recreate those narrow queries for new topics. Kind of a different flavor to al…
In fact, I took a query from a few months ago which was a trick question and reran it and got effectively the same, correct answer.
Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4
#127Hope OpenAI figures this out because quality has been their biggest moat up until now.
Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4
#128However users going on multi page rants is so bad. I read 30% through and its like “dude stop”
Its a product and you pay for it, if its not working then express the feedback and move on. Making demands of OpenAI like it is some elected government agency with transparency requirements is outrageous
Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's more likely that people are confused, and OpenAI is not making things any clearer either. AFAIK, OpenAI has repeatedly stated that GPT4 hasn't changed. People repeatedly states that when they use ChatGPT, they get a difference experience today than before. Both can be true at the same time, as ChatGPT is a "packaged" experience of GPT4, so if you use the API versions, nothing has likely changed. But Chat…
It's a bit of both. The GPT-4 models have definitely been changing - there's multiple versions right now and you can try them out in the Playground. One of the biggest differences is that the latest model patches all of the GPT-4 jailbreak prompts; quite a big change if you were doing anything remotely spicy. But OA also says that it hasn't been changing the underlying model beyond that (that's probably the tweet you…
Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4
#130GPT-4 (5/24 version) indeed fails to solve the problem if not given careful prompting, though I am not convinced this is a new development. However, chain-of-thought resolves the issue. Both prompts and responses included below. --- Failure Q: How can you use a 4-minute hourglass and a 7-minute hourglass to measure 9 minutes? A: Here's a way to measure exactly 9 minutes using a 4-minute hourglass and a 7-minute hourg…
success is saying "eyeball the sand in the 7-minute hourglass and see when it looks like 1 minute worth?"
1. Start H4 and H7
2. Flip H4 when it runs out (4-minute mark)
3. Flip H7 when it runs out (7-minute mark, 1 minute left on H4)
4. Flip H7 back when H4 runs out again (8-minute mark, 1 minute elapsed on H7)
5. When H7 runs out again (after 1 minute), exactly 9 minutes have passed