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by wazer5 1180 days ago
Even GPT-4 can only handle a few pages of text as prompt for examples. In most cases you'd want to fine tune.
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I guess I’m just curious what the killer use-cases are for fine tuning. For example it seems like overkill to fine tune a Shakespeare model, because you can just say “write like Shakespeare” and it already knows what you want.
I guess you'd want to fine tune for content that wasn't already parsed before
to my understanding there are 4 levels to add information:

1. train a model

2. fine tune a model

3. create embeddings for a model

4. use few shot prompt examples at inference time

These have decreasing resource need, but also decreasing quality.

For example, the GPT-3 API (not yet the GPT-4 API) has a functionality to send it your own embeddings, for example of your own source code documentation. Then you can query GPT-3 and it "knows" your source code doc and answers specifically with that in mind.

Where in the API docs is this described?