• Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems
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    6 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.ee
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      6 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.systems
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        6 months ago

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

        • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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          6 months ago

          Well… I do agree with you but human brains are basically big prediction engines that use lookup tables, experience, to navigate around life. Obviously a super simplification, and LLMs are nowhere near humans, but it is quite a step in the direction.