Cost per word is a bizarre metric to bring up. Since when is volume of words a measure of value or achievement?

StilesCrisis 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It also puts a thumb on the scale for AI, which tends to emit pages of text to answer simple questions.

	▲	garciasn 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sounds like any post-secondary, graduate student, or management consultant out there being there are, very often, page/word count or hours requirements. Considering the model corpora, wordiness wins out.
	▲	jsheard 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The chart is actually words "thought or written" so I guess they are running up the numbers even more by counting Claudes entire inner monologue, on top of what it ultimately outputs.

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sanex a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There was a time when these models were novel that if use it to write for me. After a year or so the verboseness and lack of personality got old. Now all I have is a decent proofreader. Maybe they'll take over my job but I'm finding the trend going the other way right now.

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kashyapc 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's not merely cost per word, but it is even more bizarre: "cost per word thought", whatever that is. Most of these "word thoughts" from LLMs of today are just auto-completed large dumps of text.

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bdangubic 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

these are not just “words” but answers to questions from people who got a job at anthropic had…