Embeddings with openAI "text-embedding-ada-002" are not deterministic

[leohoare]

Confirm this is an issue with the Python library and not an underlying OpenAI API

• This is an issue with the Python library

Describe the bug

I'm not sure if this is an issue with the python library or part of the should be reported as part of the developer community.
Reproducing the embeddings from the same input produce different embeddings.

To Reproduce

>>> from openai import OpenAI
>>> client = OpenAI(api_key="...")
>>> for i in range(50):
...     client.embeddings.create(model="text-embedding-ada-002", input="hello").data[0].embedding[:5]
... 
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.024994507431983948, -0.019366780295968056, -0.027768738567829132, -0.031097816303372383, -0.02462460845708847]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.0250103659927845, -0.01939525455236435, -0.027798103168606758, -0.030995413661003113, -0.024706488475203514]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.0250103659927845, -0.01939525455236435, -0.027798103168606758, -0.030995413661003113, -0.024706488475203514]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025048330426216125, -0.019377758726477623, -0.027810918167233467, -0.0310361385345459, -0.02466500550508499]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.02502652257680893, -0.019331468269228935, -0.027801373973488808, -0.031051915138959885, -0.02469618245959282]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]
[-0.025058425962924957, -0.019388560205698013, -0.027781018987298012, -0.030979404225945473, -0.024688364937901497]

Code snippets

No response

OS

MacOS

Python version

Python 3.10.10

Library version

openai v1.3.5

[rattrayalex]

Thanks for reporting!

This does indeed sound like an issue with the underlying OpenAI API and not the Python library, so I'm going to go ahead and close this issue.

Would you mind reposting at community.openai.com?