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Instead, he advocates for prompt engineering and multiple iterations—generating numerous outputs and selecting the best ones via automated grading. This approach leverages GPT-3's existing capabilities without incurring high costs, especially as OpenAI has lowered the per-token rate for standard models by about 66%.
The Plot Generator and Structural Approaches
Building on summaries, Shapiro details his work on a plot outline generator, which takes a synopsis and creates a beat-by-beat narrative based on structures like Save the Cat. This method involves instructing GPT-3 to list all the key plot points, each as a paragraph, effectively allowing the AI to map out a novel's progression.