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=pfTimestamps:[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 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.latent.space/subscribe