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It's not getting close to GPT-4. It's getting closer according to synthetic benchmarks but spend any non-trivial time with both and you'll quickly realise GPT-4 is still leagues ahead, especially for writing code and more complex reasoning. Which makes sense since the model is orders of magnitude larger parameter count wise.

Don't get me wrong, it's still remarkable that we already have LLMs that can be ran on consumer grade hardware that are anywhere near GPT-3.5/4 levels. But if you want the absolute highest quality of output GPT-4 is still way to go.

I have found it pretty decent at explaining math and physics concepts, and generating some basic code. It seems over-tuned for code generation (on purpose) as sometimes it inappropriately generates code when asking non-code questions.

Overall, it performs better than GPT-3.5-turbo in many use cases. Harder to quantify the GPT-4 comparison, as there are multiple versions of GPT-4 which are rumored to have significantly varied outputs.

It's definitely worth giving a shot. The parameter size of 34B makes a big difference, and it's been found that you're still better off extremely quantizing a larger-parameter model than using unquantized smaller models.

This post from today says that Llama 2 7b performs at the level of gpt-4, but 30x cheaper.

https://www.anyscale.com/blog/llama-2-is-about-as-factually-...

Imagine that the calculator breaks, and you need to do some quick math. (Yeah, yeah, I know. Cell Phones and such.) It is good to know how to do math without a calculator for those edge cases where one is not available, or when you can't do the equations that you need with it.

Calculators are good. Calculators are useful. Calculators accelerate your workflow beyond what your ancestors could do. Not knowing how to do math without one is still a hindrance, hence why we still need math classes. You need to know the underlying theory of why the calculators do what they do in order for them to be useful.

It's the same with ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a fantastic tool that can benefit your workflow. I use it all the time myself. However, being 100% dependent on it for work is a dangerous game. If it goes down(like today) or the company behind it makes a change that makes it less useful, you still need to know how to do your job without it. That's why OP's comment is worrying. They said that they feel unable to work without it. It reminds me of that Avengers quote: "If you are nothing without the Iron Man suit, you shouldn't have it."

These tools should be an extension of you, not a reliance.

See, I’d still be able to do my math without a calculator (to some extent)

Your comment above sounds like you get paralyzed when ClosedAi (OpenAi)s service have outage.

Why would you want to depend on a private corporation to this extent?

It blows my mind!

>The conceptual level at which I work

Oh come off it lol

The calculator is not a service but a tool. Until LLMS don't become just a tool don't rely on them too much or expect it be broken and have a workaround for that.

If your calculator breaks, it isn't hard to buy a new one, or borrow one, or revert to pen/paper.

the fact you even think they are comparable to a calculator is scary. they're not in any way comparable.

At least calculators don't give you plain wrong information

It's not the tool that is dystopian, it's the mindset expressed in the post.

This is the proper way to use ChatGPT. Relying on it as a source is a bad idea. However, it's handy for finding reliable sources to read further.

Yeah but if I'm doing research online I'm going to stick with sources I consider reliable, written by real people and not a text generator. So I'm not sure I understand the comparison you're trying to make.

you read sources and original works, did you actually think this was a gotcha? you are depriving yourself of proper learning and knowledge lol

The simple answer is don't rely on information you find on the internet, SEO killed that years ago. And chatgpt was trained on that awful mess. Go read an actual book

Stochastic parrots don't give you the original source. In fact they make up sources on the spot.

That is worse than a search engine.

You can spoof your user agent from what I understand.