Fine-tune vs Embedding

[konradk]

@rkaplan

Is it correct that fine-tuning a model does not change the code to interact with the API other than to change the model to be used?

Yes, you can see sample requests here: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning/use-a-fine-tuned-model

@rkaplan

Whereas to take advantage of embeddings you can no longer have very simple code which merely uses the API to present a prompt and get a response, but rather with embedding you have to do the cosine calculations and a lot more overhead to achieve a response from the model?

I recommend this notebook: Question answering using embeddings-based search | OpenAI Cookbook. It perfectly describes why Embeddings are useful and what an example implementation looks like.