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Remember how ChatGPT totally aced the bar exam? Wow! yeah, turns out that was just a lie (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 171 points 2 years ago (149 children)

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.systems 125 points 2 years ago (146 children)

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!

[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 years ago (56 children)

That’s like saying a person reading a book before a quiz is doing it open book because they have the memory of reading that book.

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev -3 points 2 years ago

The word parameters here must be defined. Is it the weight they are talking about or the input being used to answer the question? For the former, yeah, it's like a person was reading a book and not an open book at all. But if it were used in the input, then it is practically an open book. They have the context on the same input.

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