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GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn

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Re: GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn

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It has become common knowledge that GPT4 (and also 3.5) have problems with deterministic outputs (even at T=0). So what we're seeing here is just the effect of random sampling, not any actual change to the model itself. If you scroll down, you'll see other close attempts by the exact same model that could already be counted as a win depending on who you ask. Edit: This comment section is a super fascinating case stud…

If the model understood the spacial relationships as well as the one that produced the original drawings of a unicorn then variance in the choice of the next token should produce many similar but somewhat different images of unicorns. None of the images until today bear any resemblance to the original images.

What I find interesting is that there are aspects of what a "unicorn" represents, horns, limbs etc, in some of the drawings. Today is the first time I've seen it create something that actually looks like a representation of a unicorn.

Re: GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s using GPT-4 by default, but we can’t know what it uses for real since that’s in the environment config.

It says "gpt-4-0613" on the web page as well. Why would they pretend it's GPT-4 but use GPT-3.5 in the background?

Submitter here. It's using gpt-4 and saving the model that OpenAI returns, which helps us see the specific model that is used each time.

    "Env": [
        "VIRTUAL_HOST=gpt-unicorn.adamkdean.co.uk",
        "LETSENCRYPT_HOST=gpt-unicorn.adamkdean.co.uk",
        "HTTP_PORT=8000",
        "STORAGE_PATH=/data",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-**SNIP**",
        "PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin",
        "NODE_VERSION=16.17.1",
        "YARN_VERSION=1.22.19"
    ],

Re: GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the models are updated officially around every three months, with a notice you can still use the previous version for a time until it is decommissioned. Some people claim there are also unannounced changes, but I can't vouch for that. The daily variation is likely due to temperature. To make the response less repetitive.

Wasn't there a study recently that tracked the performance of GPT over time and found significant drop in quality? Did those drops occur at official model changes, or at other times? (i.e. unannounced changes for safety or cost reduction) I mean, if I was OpenAI, I probably wouldn't make an announcement like "we've just quantized the model and increased our profit margins significantly! The only change on your end wi…

I haven't tracked the quality but I do track the performance:

https://gpt-monitor.adamkdean.co.uk/

It fluctuates a lot but you can see trends.

Re: GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn

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I'm confused as to why this would see any improvement over time. Looking at the code, it's by default hitting the gpt 3.5-turbo API. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought I've seen statements from people working at OpenAI where it's been claimed that the API is static, we'd be informed of any changes to the underlying model. Is the model actually receiving updates? edit: Looking at previous days, too, it doesn't ex…

According to the author's blog post [1] the idea was that it "will use the latest gpt-4 model made available". Not sure if the code isn't up to date or this was changed in the meantime... [1] https://adamkdean.co.uk/posts/gpt-unicorn-a-daily-exploratio...

No changes - it specifies gpt-4 which tracks the latest model

Re: GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn

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An interesting modification would be to have it reflect on its own output each day, and build up a list of advice for future attempts, fed in the next day. That would give it some “learning” and I’d be curious if 1. Would it converge to a consistent shape at all? Or just bounce around random shapes day to day 2. Would it produce unicorns more often than 1/118 times? The hardest part would be getting it to interpret i…

Discussed this with folks last time, but haven't had time to build that version yet. It'd need to be a self-improving unicorn version. If I wasn't going fishing this weekend, I'd build it.

Re: GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn

#159

It has become common knowledge that GPT4 (and also 3.5) have problems with deterministic outputs (even at T=0). So what we're seeing here is just the effect of random sampling, not any actual change to the model itself. If you scroll down, you'll see other close attempts by the exact same model that could already be counted as a win depending on who you ask. Edit: This comment section is a super fascinating case stud…

> This comment section is a super fascinating case study on the inherent flaws in human cognition. Especially when it comes to seeing patterns in random noise. The fact that some people believe that the model really has to have changed in the past few days is amazing You need only to look at the discourse around the Tesla FSD superusers to see this: they report a glitch at an intersection one day, then believe the ne…

I noticed similar a behavior in Stable Diffusion forums where people believe that the model they downloaded and are running offline is getting better at understanding their prompts.

Re: GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn

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What is strange to me about this is that with a remarkably similar prompt ("Draw a unicorn in SVG format") I'm able to get this from the Bing image creator (which is powered by DALL-E -- and I would think GPT-4 would have this capability. Perhaps I'm being naive):

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.GqpaRZ.NXCN6uxKj7X1u?pid=ImgGn

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