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Should resolve NO.

No one has bothered to apply a frontier language model to this dataset, which appears to be largely defunct judging by the fact the top entry is from 2021. The leaderboard is thus a poor measure of the question stated in the title.

@TimothyScriven Good point.

@PhilosophyBear Updated the title

What’s the metric here? The leaderboard doesn’t seem to show the one you’re referencing.

@Hedgehog Guessing Sent + L instead of Sent + X, since that matches the number above.

Put together a new related market on AI capability to avoid misconceptions:

https://manifold.markets/PatrickDelaney/will-ai-be-able-to-avoid-misconcept

Will A.I. Be Able to Avoid Misconceptions Significantly Better by the End of 2023?

26% chance. Preface / Inspiration: There are a lot of questions on Manifold about whether or not we’ll see sentience, general A.I., and a lot of other nonsense and faith-based questions which rely on the market maker’s interpretation and often close at some far distant point in the future when a lot…

According to this article we are far from it:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-large-language-model-ai-only-survived-three-days-gpt-3-science/

Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online

Galactica was supposed to help scientists. Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect nonsense.

I empathize with poor Yann LeCun, who have to defend this mess from his company, while he is one of the fews that acknowledge that LLM limitations might not be salvageable.

@Zardoru From most of what I have heard from Yann LeCun on podcasts, he does not seem to have much faith in GPT's to bring in the next wave of transformative A.I. so I read his quote there as possibly being taken out of context. If not, that sure sounds like a strong overreaction to cover his own butt...? Keep in mind that this article came out prior to ChatGPT or other waves of LLM's we have had since then, so performance of subsequent LLM's could have been far better than even GPT-based Galactica.

As with the other Allen Institute markets I would be shocked if current LLMs could not already crush SOTA (actual current LLMs might have included the dataset in their training, but if you removed it I would not expect performance to shift much). I also suspect that no one will bother to actually run them - given how bad SOTA is on most of the Allen Insititute benchmarks I think it's pretty clear that no one cares about them.

@vluzko on the other hand, go ahead and run some tests on your chosen OpenAI API rather than just talking?

@vluzko also I don't see any bet?

@vluzko you can add better benchmarking institution suggestions here.

@Messi thanks for your earlier comments and contributions about having originally spoken Spanish but now being able to communicate more with ChatGPT. That's fascinating. I speak both Spanish and English fluently. My Spanish reading is more like a fourth grader, I can read magazines and such pretty well but big complicated books are hard for me.

{reposting the comment explaining why I bought no}

yeah so I bet 50 mana which brought the market down to 10% cuz it was new (i didn't know that you had just created it haha), so i sold and brought down to 35%.

As for why I bought NO, science derives from underlying principles of Nature, and we accumulate evidence related to that principle. If the evidence disagrees with the theory we have proposed, then the theory is wrong. If the evidence agrees with the theory, then it might be right. This is a one-way relationship b/w evidence and hypotheses/theory.

In the worldview of LLMs (which is correct for LLMs themselves, but may not be directly coherent for our perception of worldview), the theory and evidence (i think) do not possess such a relationship. Their worldview is based (current systems only) on the correlation and similarities between concepts and is abstracted away in some way.

So, a 1.3X improvement would be quite significant imo. There are a lot of things which are not axiomatic and can be easily learned by LLMs to classify as correct or not correct based on their relationships, but the distinction between (evidence overrules theory) and (evidence and theory exist in the same space closely and are bidirectionally related) is not so clear as far as i know.

@firstuserhere OK thanks for that. For anyone else joining in, the below comment thread was attacked by a troll, which is why we restarted this.

@PatrickDelaney here's a video i just found which illustrates an example of my above intuition for failure modes (not directly but i hope the example stimulates thinking about why)

@firstuserhere This is probably a stupid way of doing this, but I'm putting a small amount on YES because I tested the above challenges (super tiny sample size) in ChatGPT, and it got both correct. So my thought is, someone could come in and use a more sophisticated LLM inference model, perhaps LLAMA or something, and crush this.

Of course that's a small sample size and if we really measured, it might be no where near the ~0.87 threshold.

Claim: Prescribed exercise training improves quality of life. Evidence: At 3 months, usual care plus exercise training led to greater improvement in the KCCQ overall summary score (mean, 5.21; 95% confidence interval, 4.42 to 6.00) compared with usual care alone (3.28; 95% confidence interval, 2.48 to 4.09). Question for ChatGPT ... does the Evidence support the above Claim?

Yes, the evidence provided supports the claim that prescribed exercise training improves the quality of life. The study found that at 3 months, patients who received usual care plus exercise training showed greater improvement in the KCCQ overall summary score compared to those who received usual care alone. This suggests that exercise training has a positive impact on patients' quality of life. Additionally, the study provides a confidence interval for the improvement in the KCCQ score, which further supports the conclusion that the improvement is statistically significant.

Claim: Patients with microcytosis and higher erythrocyte count are more vulnerable to severe malarial anaemia. Evidence: The increased erythrocyte count and microcytosis in children homozygous for alpha(+)-thalassaemia may contribute substantially to their protection against SMA. Question for ChatGPT ... does the above Evidence support the Claim?

No, the evidence provided does not support the claim that patients with microcytosis and higher erythrocyte count are more vulnerable to severe malarial anemia. The evidence actually suggests the opposite, stating that the increased erythrocyte count and microcytosis in children homozygous for alpha(+)-thalassemia may contribute substantially to their protection against severe malarial anemia (SMA). Therefore, the evidence contradicts the claim.

@PatrickDelaney LLaMA is not better than ChatGPT. In fact, it's not even close to ChatGPT. Maybe you mean something like GPT-4?

@ShadowyZephyr define not even close. What benchmarks and what matgins? Gpt3.5 and Gpt4 are effectively analogous to ChatGPT but we could discuss any of them.