OpenAI Unveils GPT-3.5 Turbo Fine-Tuning and API Enhancements, Ushers in New Era of Customization

In a monumental development for artificial intelligence, OpenAI has announced significant updates to its GPT-3.5 Turbo model, ushering in an era of increased customization and efficiency. The newly launched fine-tuning feature gives developers the ability to tailor models specifically for their individual use cases.

Customized Experience

This breakthrough allows developers to run supervised fine-tuning to enhance the model’s performance across various applications, with fine-tuning for GPT-4 expected to follow this fall. The feature answers a growing demand for unique and differentiated experiences, as developers have actively sought ways to customize the model.

OpenAI’s early testing revealed that a fine-tuned version of GPT-3.5 Turbo could match, and in some cases, outperform GPT-4-level abilities on specific tasks. Furthermore, the company assured that the data sent through the fine-tuning API is owned exclusively by the customer and is not utilized by OpenAI or any other organization.

Improvements and Applications

Some of the many improvements brought by fine-tuning include:

1. Improved steerability: Businesses can now better direct the model, ensuring, for instance, that it responds in German when prompted in that language.
2. Reliable output formatting: Crucial for applications like code completion, fine-tuning improves consistent response formatting.
3. Custom tone: Brands can tailor the model’s voice to match their distinctive tones.

The increased efficiency of fine-tuning with GPT-3.5 Turbo extends to handling 4k tokens – doubling previous capacity – and reducing prompt size by up to 90%, speeding API calls, and cutting costs.

Safety Considerations and Pricing

OpenAI emphasizes that safety remains a top priority, ensuring that fine-tuning training data undergo rigorous moderation processes, detecting unsafe training data conflicting with their safety standards.

The cost of fine-tuning is bifurcated into training and usage costs:

• Training: $0.008 per 1K Tokens
• Usage input: $0.012 per 1K Tokens
• Usage output: $0.016 per 1K Tokens

Model Replacements and Transitioning

Furthermore, OpenAI is releasing babbage-002 and davinci-002 as replacements for original GPT-3 base models. These can be accessed through the Completions API and fine-tuned via the new API endpoint /v1/fine_tuning/jobs, replacing the old /v1/fine-tunes endpoint, which will be retired on January 4th, 2024.

A New Era

This significant advancement in AI technology allows businesses to create more personalized, effective solutions tailored to their specific needs. With OpenAI leading the charge, the future of artificial intelligence seems to be on a path towards more innovation, customization, and efficiency. Whether it’s adopting a particular tone or increasing the response accuracy in a specific language, the updates to GPT-3.5 Turbo herald a new era of possibilities in AI technology.

https://openai.com/blog/gpt-3-5-turbo-fine-tuning-and-api-updates

{
"seed": 4064754,
"used_random_seed": true,
"negative_prompt": "",
"num_outputs": 1,
"num_inference_steps": 75,
"guidance_scale": 7.5,
"width": 512,
"height": 512,
"vram_usage_level": "balanced",
"sampler_name": "euler",
"use_stable_diffusion_model": "Dreamshaper_3.32_baked_vae_clip_fix",
"clip_skip": false,
"tiling": "none",
"use_vae_model": "vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned",
"stream_progress_updates": true,
"stream_image_progress": false,
"show_only_filtered_image": true,
"block_nsfw": false,
"output_format": "jpeg",
"output_quality": 75,
"output_lossless": false,
"metadata_output_format": "json",
"original_prompt": "OpenAI Unveils GPT-3.5 Turbo Fine-Tuning and API Enhancements, Ushers in New Era of Customization, deepleaps.com",
"active_tags": [
"CGI",
"Fantasy",
"Photo",
"Realistic",
"Cinematic",
"Dramatic",
"Landscape",
"Excited"
],
"inactive_tags": [],
"use_upscale": "RealESRGAN_x4plus",
"upscale_amount": "4",
"prompt": "OpenAI Unveils GPT-3.5 Turbo Fine-Tuning and API Enhancements, Ushers in New Era of Customization, deepleaps.com, CGI, Fantasy, Photo, Realistic, Cinematic, Dramatic, Landscape, Excited",
"prompt_strength": 0.7,
"use_cpu": false
}