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I would add the following two numbers if you're generating realtime text or speech for human consumption: - Human Reading Speed (English): ~250 words per minut
by abetlen 3y ago
I would add the following two numbers if you're generating realtime text or speech for human consumption:
- Human Reading Speed (English): ~250 words per minute
- Human Speaking Speed (English): ~150 words per minute
Should be treated like the Doherty Threshold [1] for generative content.
[1] https://lawsofux.com/doherty-threshold/ https://lawsofux.com/doherty-threshold/
- armchairhacker 3y agoBut I'd say LLMs produce content faster than I can read or write it, because they can produce content which is really dense. Ask GPT-4 a question and then answer it yourself. Maybe your answer will be as good or better than GPT-4's but GPT-4 writes its answer a lot faster.
- furyofantares 3y agoIt certainly doesn't produce content as fast as I can read it.
- renonce 3y agoOnly if you use gpt-4. gpt-3.5-turbo is much faster, and gpt-4 is only going to get faster as GPUs get faster.
- cubefox 3y agoBing also uses GPT-4 and it is very fast. Microsoft spends more ok compute.
- furyofantares 3y agoIt doesn't exclusively use GPT-4, you might be right anyway that their GPT-4 is much faster but you're also not always seeing GPT-4 with them.
- cubefox 3y agoI'm pretty sure it at least mostly uses GPT-4.
- darknoon 3y agoafaict OpenAI's instance is massively overloaded, you can see with the 32k context model actually being faster in practice rather than slower
- furyofantares 3y agoYep. I use GPT-4 extensively and exclusively, and the comment I was replying to mentioned GPT-4. I can't wait for it to get faster.
- bombolo 3y agodense content? Not in my experience. It seems to be really overly verbose for me.
- Tostino 3y agoPrompt it to be information dense in its response then.
- skykooler 3y agoHuman reading speed varies by a factor of 10 or more between individuals, while speaking speed is much more consistent.
- fritzo 3y agoEven my own reading speed even varies by a factor of 5 day to day, depending on how much reading I've been doing, sleep I've gotten, etc.
- irrational 3y agoPlus, whether I am reading light fiction versus technical documentation.
- telesilla 3y agoExceptions for languages where rapidity of speech really varies according to context, such as in Spanish.
- JohnFen 3y ago> speaking speed is much more consistent. Is it? I've noticed a huge variance in speaking speed in the US, but it tends to vary more between regions rather than individuals.