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furyofantares on May 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Numbers every LLM developer should know

I think all the ratios given are x:1 and they tell you x.

qeternity on May 17, 2023 | [–]

It’s the other way around.

1 GPT4 token is equivalent to 50 GPT3.5 tokens.

1 token is equivalent to 0.75 words.

contravariant on May 17, 2023 | [–]

That would make it 0.75 tokens to 1 word right?

furyofantares on May 17, 2023 | [–]

lol, yes, I'm glad they clarified because I understood it correctly then made the mistake GP did when I replied to them.

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