Emergency Pod: OpenAI's new Functions API, 75% Price Drop, 4x Context Length (w/ Alex Volkov, Simon Willison, Riley Goodside, Joshua Lochner, Stefania Druga, Eric Elliott, Mayo Oshin et al)

Full Transcript and show notes: https://www.latent.space/p/function-agents?sd=pf

Timestamps:

[00:00:00] Intro

[00:01:47] Recapping June 2023 Updates

[00:06:24] Known Issues with Long Context

[00:08:00] New Functions API

[00:10:45] Riley Goodside

[00:12:28] Simon Willison

[00:14:30] Eric Elliott

[00:16:05] Functions API and Agents

[00:18:25] Functions API vs Google Vertex JSON

[00:21:32] From English back to Code

[00:26:14] Embedding Price Drop and Pinecone Perspective

[00:30:39] Xenova and Huggingface Perspective

[00:34:23] Function Selection

[00:39:58] Designing Code Agents with Function API

[00:42:16] Models as Routers

[00:46:48] Prompt Engineering replaced by Finetuning

[00:52:15] The 2 Code x LLM Paradigms

[00:56:30] Smol Models for the future

[00:58:54] The Evolution of the GPT API

[01:03:27] Functions API Security vs Prompt Injection

[01:16:18] GPT Model Upgrades

[01:17:36] JSONformer

[01:21:03] Closing Comments - What We Want Next

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