Opinion | Press Pause on the Silicon Valley Hype Machine
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A.I. is looking less like an all-powerful being and more like an unreliable intern.
  • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 months ago

    From Re-evaluating GPT-4’s bar exam performance (linked in the article):

    First, although GPT-4’s UBE score nears the 90th percentile when examining approximate conversions from February administrations of the Illinois Bar Exam, these estimates are heavily skewed towards repeat test-takers who failed the July administration and score significantly lower than the general test-taking population.

    Ohhh, that is sneaky!

    • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
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      2 months ago

      What I find delightful about this is that I already wasn’t impressed! Because, as the paper goes on to say

      Moreover, although the UBE is a closed-book exam for humans, GPT-4’s huge training corpus largely distilled in its parameters means that it can effectively take the UBE “open-book”

      And here I was thinking it not getting a perfect score on multiple-choice questions was already damning. But apparently it doesn’t even get a particularly good score!

      • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Why is that a criticism? This is how it works for humans too: we study, we learn the stuff, and then try to recall it during tests. We’ve been trained on the data too, for neither a human nor an ai would be able to do well on the test without learning it first.

        This is part of what makes ai so “scary” that it can basically know so much.

        • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Dont anthropomorphise. There is quite the difference between a human and an advanced lookuptable.

          • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I absolutely agree. However, if you think the LLMs are just fancy LUTs, then I strongly disagree. Unless, of course, we are also just fancy LUTs.

            • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              You ever meet an ai researcher with a background in biology? I’ve discussed this stuff with one. She disagrees with Turing about machines thinking including when ai is in the picture. They process information very differently from how biology does

              • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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                2 months ago

                This is a vague non answer, although I agree it’s done very differently because our process is biological and ai is not.

                But as I asked elsewhere, what’s the effective difference?

                • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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                  2 months ago

                  so to summarize, your only contributions to this thread are to go “well uh you just don’t know how LLMs work” while providing absolutely no detail of your own, and reporting our regulars for “Civility” when they rightly called you out for being a fucking idiot who’s way out of their depth

                  how fucking embarrassing for you