- DepartureAI basics
- Stop 2Learning from examples
- Stop 3Prompts
- Stop 4Tokens
- Stop 5Embeddings
- Stop 6Attention
- Stop 7Next-token probabilities
- Stop 8Repeated generation
- Stop 9Temperature
- ArrivalChecking answers
Platform 01 · Station 9 of 10
Temperature
Temperature is a setting that changes how varied the answer may be. A lower setting usually gives more similar answers. A higher setting may give more different answers. Neither setting makes an answer correct by itself.
Temperature changes variation
At a lower temperature, one choice has a much larger chance. At a higher temperature, chances are spread more evenly. Both can give wrong answers. These bars are made up for this example.
02 · Try
Does a lower temperature always give a correct answer?
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