Count seems to be off by 5-8 tokens

[drorm]

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came here from https://github.com/openai/openai-node/issues/18 and I'm using this to count tokens when streaming. Seems to be off by 5-8 tokens in either direction when comparing to the result that the official API gives when using without streaming. I haven't done a very deep analysis, just gave it a few prompts:

• tell me a joke
• tell me a n sentence story. (where n is between 5 and 12)

[syonfox]

That info is mostly in the demo app. I would probably make a new repository for it.

But I will add those file to npm so that it is possible if not ideal.

//18+ for fetch is required :( 
npm update gptoken // need 0.1.0 if you edit package json



let streamOne = require("gptoken/demo_app/streamOne")
require(dotenv).configure()
//proccess.env.OPENAI_API_KEY = "..."

//streamOne.test()

//streamOne(model, prompt/messages, onToken, onData, onError, options)
//see code 


//after editing .env and installing dotenv use this code to get started



require('dotenv').config();

if(!process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY) console.error("OPENAI_API_KEY is required; npm install dotenv; nano .env; require('d>
let streamOne = require("./node_modules/gptoken/demo_app/streamOne");


function onData(token, msg, parsed, response) { 
        console.log(msg.content);
}

let msgs = [{role: "system", content: "whats the best cat?"}]
streamOne("gpt-3.5-turbo", msgs, onData);

This is my current code feel free to make some edits and improve it here in the demo app.

todo: add check for missing options right now it needs the functions to exist.

[syonfox]

https://github.com/syonfox/GPT-3-Encoder/blob/GPToken/demo_app/streamOne.js

also what token estomator are you using do you have an example of the tokenized output.

We could write a test to compare them. to what is expected.

[drorm]

I compare it to the result given by the API when not syncing. When I make the request, I get both of them, to give the results. It's typically between -2% to +2%, and the main purpose is to get an idea of costs. Since 3.5 is so cheap these days, I really don't think it's worth spending a lot of time on this.

[syonfox]

si, I agree that the most usefull and original function is just to get a quick estimate. It would be useful if it was compatible with some of the guts.

Anyway yeah, I think the request can give accurate tokens but a few cents here and there never hurt much.

[syonfox]

This is probably due to issue #6

[drorm]

Just published https://github.com/drorm/gish and you can see in the screencast, the display of the counting when streaming. Thank you.