Decoding AI: Beyond Benchmarks to Genuine Intelligence
The conversation delves into the nuanced world of large language models (LLMs) and the complexities surrounding their benchmarking, reasoning capabilities, and the delicate balance between providing accurate information versus acquiescing to user expectations. The discourse reveals multiple layers of concerns and ideas related to how these models are designed, trained, and evaluated.
1. Personal Prompts as Benchmarks: The idea of keeping private, personal prompts to evaluate new AI models is a central theme. Participants argue that mainstream benchmarks can be gamed by model providers, making them less reliable. Personal benchmarks remain unique and less susceptible to being overfitted. However, the notion that keeping prompts secret can prevent gaming is debated, with others suggesting that any use of a prompt in a public model could lead to it being incorporated into future training sessions.