I saw today that the official API docs ( OpenAI API ) state that temperature is a value between 0 and 2. Is that a recent change? Everything I’ve read so far, and the value slider in the Playground, suggested it was between 0 and 1.

The “official” temperature range is from 0 to 1 - meaning the values inside these limits are recommended to make a Large Language Model (LLM) respond in a human-acceptable way depending on the user’s questions and prompts. We may consider Temperature as a “degree of creativity freedom” from 0% to 1…

the temperature goes to 2 in chat completion and 1 in text completion.

Hey @AlexDeM , first of all thanks so much for taking the time to share these incredible insights! I would like to gather more context about how you built them. Were you basing them on a specific GPT model? Did you have access to internal documentation or tech talks? It seems like you’ve built a s…

To correct the above information. [image] To inform us of the value of this high of a setting on a text completion task… == Temperature: 0.1 == The scaling of logprob logit values by temperature in GPT AI models is a technique used to control the randomness of the generated text. This technique…

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Does temperature go to 1 or 2?

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conradgodfrey April 23, 2023, 8:57am 2

I’ve just tried 2 in the API and it works

If you turn it up to 3 it breaks

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Does temperature go to 1 or 2?

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