RArazodactyl·Jan 14, 2023Submission
Infinite Array of Anything in Python Using GPT
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6 sourcesYes... and no. There's a slightly horrifying piece of introspection code that does this: https://github.com/ianb/infinite-ai-array/blob/main/iaia/ins...
In Infinite AI ArrayIt is also caching requests on-disk. See for instance https://github.com/ianb/infinite-ai-array/blob/main/iaia/gpt...
The problem* is that if a prompt changes slightly then it won't be a cache hit.
* okay, one problem.
In Infinite AI ArrayPer the README (and the source code), requests to GPT are cached. I know that doesn't solve the stability problem, since the cache is keyed on the exact prompt among other parameters, but it's something at least.
The source code shows that it's using pickling to store OpenAI responses on the local filesystem. See here:
https://github.com/ianb/infinite-ai-array/blob/main/iaia/gpt...
and here:
https://github.com/ianb/infinite-ai-array/blob/main/iaia/gpt...
In Infinite AI ArrayI'm no python expert but it looks like this does happen in memory: https://github.com/ianb/infinite-ai-array/blob/main/iaia/mag...
I can't imagine it's too hard to serialize the `existing` python dict so subsequent runs are deterministic
In Infinite AI Array