[HN Gopher] GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?
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       GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?
        
       Author : atemerev
       Score  : 513 points
       Date   : 2024-04-29 15:39 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | kodisha wrote:
       | Woah, was just about to post.
       | 
       | Crazy good results shown on twitter:
       | 
       | https://x.com/phill__1/status/1784966296947286204?s=46&t=9wY...
        
       | diginova wrote:
       | For anyone wondering how to access
       | 
       | Go to - https://chat.lmsys.org/ Select Direct Chat Select
       | gpt2-chatbot
       | 
       | Other twitter mentions -
       | https://twitter.com/kosenjuu/status/1784952955294421215
        
         | sdwr wrote:
         | Stuck on cloudflare limiter page, looks like this blew up fast
        
       | atemerev wrote:
       | Indeed, all my test prompts are giving much better results than
       | gpt4-turbo and Claude Opus. And yet, the OpenAI style is clearly
       | recognizable.
        
         | steve_adams_86 wrote:
         | I agree. It responds a lot like GPT-4 in style, but with much
         | better answers.
        
         | te0006 wrote:
         | Agreed. I had it solve a little programming problem in a really
         | obscure programming language and after some prompt tuning got
         | results strongly superior to GPT4, Claude, Llama3 and Mixtral.
         | As the language (which I won't name here) is acceptably
         | documented but there are _really_ few examples available
         | online, this seems to indicate very good generalization and
         | reasoning capabilities.
        
       | thorum wrote:
       | It's an impressive model, but why would OpenAI need to do that?
        
         | sebzim4500 wrote:
         | I guess they want to know how good it is as a chatbot and no
         | one has found a better benchmark than lmsys arena.
        
         | summerlight wrote:
         | At this moment, there's no real world benchmark at scale other
         | than lmsys. All other "benchmarks" are merely sanity checks.
        
           | concurrentsquar wrote:
           | OpenAI could either hire private testers or use AB testing on
           | ChatGPT Plus users (for example, oftentimes, when using
           | ChatGPT, I have to select between 2 different responses to
           | continue a conversation); both are probably much more better
           | (in many aspects: not leaking GPT-4.5/5 generations (or the
           | existence of a GPT-4.5/5) to the public at scale and avoiding
           | bias* (because people probably rate GPT-4 generations better
           | if they are told (either explicitly or implicitly (eg.
           | socially)) it's from GPT-5) to say the least) than putting a
           | model called 'GPT2' onto lmsys.
           | 
           | * While lmsys does hide the names of models until a person
           | decides which model generated the best text, people can still
           | figure out what language model generated a piece of text**
           | (or have a good guess) without explicit knowledge, especially
           | if that model is hyped up online as 'GPT-5;' even a
           | subconscious "this text sounds like what I have seen
           | 'GPT2-chatbot' generate online" may influence results
           | inadvertently.
           | 
           | ** ... though I will note that I just got a generation from
           | 'gpt2-chatbot' that I thought was from Claude 3
           | (haiku/sonnet), and its competitor was LLaMa-3-70b (I thought
           | it was 8b or Mixtral). I am obviously not good at LLM
           | authorship attribution.
        
             | imtringued wrote:
             | For the average person using lmsys, there is no benefit in
             | choosing your favorite model. Even if you want to stick
             | with your favorite model, choosing a competitor's better
             | answer will still improve the dataset for your favorite
             | model.
             | 
             | The only case where detecting a model makes any difference
             | is for vendors who want to boost their own model by hiring
             | people and paying them every time they select the vendor's
             | model.
        
         | nickfromseattle wrote:
         | Altman said in the latest Lex Friedman podcast that OAI has
         | consistently received feedback their releases "shock the
         | world", and that they'd like to fix that.
         | 
         | I think releasing to this 3rd party so the internet can start
         | chattering about it and discovering new functionality several
         | months before an official release aligns with that goal of
         | drip-feeding society incremental updates instead of big new
         | releases.
        
           | MVissers wrote:
           | They did the same with GPT-4, they were sitting on it for
           | months not knowing how to release. Ended up releasing GPT-3.5
           | and releasing 4 quietly after nerfing 3.5 into a turbo.
           | 
           | OpenAI sucks at naming though. GPT2 now? Their specific
           | gpt-4-314 etc. model naming was also a mess.
        
             | Jensson wrote:
             | > OpenAI sucks at naming though. GPT2 now?
             | 
             | Maybe they got help from Microsoft?
        
       | steve_adams_86 wrote:
       | The results of this LLM are consistently far better than any
       | other that I choose. I asked 'what is the most efficient approach
       | to building a led grow light with off-the-shelf parts?' and its
       | response was incredible. Very much in line with how I've done it
       | in the past after weeks of research, trial and error, and
       | feedback from people. The other LLMs gave mostly reasonable yet
       | sparse and incomplete answers.
       | 
       | It also opted to include an outline of how to include an
       | integrated timer. That's a great idea and very practical, but
       | wasn't prompted at all. Some might consider that a bad thing,
       | though.
       | 
       | Whatever it is, it's substantially better than what I've been
       | using. Exciting.
        
         | throwup238 wrote:
         | I'm asking it about how to make turbine blades for a high
         | bypass turbofan engine and it's giving very good answers,
         | including math and some very esoteric material science
         | knowledge. Way past the point where the knowledge can be easily
         | checked for hallucinations without digging into literature
         | including journal papers and using the math to build some
         | simulations.
         | 
         | I don't even have to prompt it much, I just keep saying "keep
         | going" and it gets deeper and deeper. Opus has completely run
         | off the rails in comparison. I can't wait till this model hits
         | general availability.
        
           | squigz wrote:
           | You mean it's giving very good _sounding_ answers.
        
             | f_devd wrote:
             | That's what I've observed, I gave it a task for a PoC on
             | something I've been thinking about for a while and it's
             | answer while syntactically correct is entirely useless (in
             | the literal sense) due to it ignoring parts of the task.
        
           | harryp_peng wrote:
           | You know at one point we wouldn't be able to benchmark them,
           | due to the sheer complexity of the test required. I.e. if you
           | are testing a model on maths, the problem will have to be
           | extremely difficult to even consider a 'hustle' for the LLM;
           | it would then take you a day to work out the solution
           | yourself.
           | 
           | See where it's getting at? When humans are no longer on the
           | same spectrum as LLMs, that's probably the definition of AGI.
        
             | coffeemug wrote:
             | There is a huge class of problems that's extremely
             | difficult to solve but very easy to check.
        
               | harryp_peng wrote:
               | Humans supervising models solving difficult problems is
               | the beginning of an AGI society.
        
               | losvedir wrote:
               | Prove it...
        
               | smallnamespace wrote:
               | Have you ever heard the term _NP-complete_?
        
               | losvedir wrote:
               | Yeah, I mean, that's the joke.
               | 
               | The comment I replied to, "a huge class of problems
               | that's extremely difficult to solve but very easy to
               | check", sounded to me like an assertion that P != NP,
               | which everyone takes for granted but actually hasn't been
               | proved. If, contrary to all expectations, P = NP, then
               | that huge class of problems wouldn't exist, right? Since
               | they'd be in P, they'd actually be easy to solve as well.
        
               | somenameforme wrote:
               | *Assuming you don't mean mathematically prove.*
               | 
               | I can't test the bot right now, because it seems to have
               | been hugged to death. But there's quite a lot of simple
               | tests LLMs fail. Basically anything where the answer is
               | both precise/discrete and unlikely to be directly in its
               | training set. There's lots of examples in this [1] post,
               | which oddly enough ended up flagged. In fact this guy [2]
               | is offering $10k to anybody that create a prompt to get
               | an LLM to solve a simple replacement problem he's found
               | they fail at.
               | 
               | They also tend to be incapable of playing even basic
               | level chess, in spite of there being undoubtedly millions
               | of pages of material on the topic in their training base.
               | If you do play, take the game out of theory ASAP (1. a3!?
               | 2. a4!!) such that the bot can't just recite 30 moves of
               | the ruy lopez or whatever.
               | 
               | [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39959589
               | 
               | [2] - https://twitter.com/VictorTaelin/status/17766776354
               | 91344744
        
               | sfkgtbor wrote:
               | Multiple people found prompts to make LLM solve the
               | problem, and the $10k has been awarded: https://twitter.c
               | om/VictorTaelin/status/1777049193489572064
        
               | imtringued wrote:
               | The entire problem with LLMs is that you don't want to
               | prompt them into solving specific problems. The reason
               | why instruction finetuning is so popular is that it makes
               | it easier to just write whatever you want. Text
               | completion on the other hand requires you to conform to
               | the style of the previously written text.
               | 
               | In a sense, LLMs need an affordance model so that it can
               | estimate the difficulty of a task and plan a longer
               | sequence of iterations automatically according to its
               | perceived difficulty.
        
             | somenameforme wrote:
             | You know, people often complain about goal shifting in AI.
             | We hit some target that was supposed to be AI (or even
             | AGI), kind of go meh - and then change to a new goal. But
             | the problem isn't goal shifting, the problem is that the
             | goals were set to a level that had nothing whatsoever to do
             | where we "really" want to go, precisely in order to make
             | them achievable. So it's no surprise that when we hit these
             | neutered goals we aren't then where we hope to actually be!
             | 
             | So here, with your example. Basic software programs can
             | multiply million digit numbers near instantly with
             | absolutely no problem. This would take a human years of
             | dedicated effort to solve. Solving work, of any sort,
             | that's difficult for a human has absolutely nothing to do
             | with AGI. If we think about what we "really" mean by AGI, I
             | think it's the exact opposite even. AGI will instead
             | involve computers doing what's relatively easy for humans.
             | 
             | Go back not that long ago in our past and we were glorified
             | monkeys. Now we're glorified monkeys with nukes and who've
             | landed on the Moon! The point of this is that if you go
             | back in time we basically knew nothing. State of the art
             | technology was 'whack it with stick!', communication was
             | limited to various grunts, and our collective knowledge was
             | very limited, and many assumptions of fact were simply
             | completely wrong.
             | 
             | Now imagine training an LLM on the state of human knowledge
             | from this time, perhaps alongside a primitive sensory feed
             | of the world. AGI would be able to take this and not only
             | get to where we are today, but then go well beyond it. And
             | this should all be able to happen at an exceptionally rapid
             | rate, given historic human knowledge transfer and storage
             | rates over time has always been some number really close to
             | zero. AGI not only would not suffer such problems but would
             | have perfect memory, orders of magnitude greater
             | 'conscious' raw computational ability (as even a basic
             | phone today has), and so on.
             | 
             | ---
             | 
             | Is this goal achievable? No, not anytime in the foreseeable
             | future, if ever. But people don't want this. They want to
             | believe AGI is not only possible, but might even happen in
             | their lifetime. But I think if we objectively think about
             | what we "really" want to see, it's clear that it isn't
             | coming anytime soon. Instead we're doomed to just goal
             | shift our way endlessly towards creating what may one day
             | be a _really_ good natural language search engine. And hey,
             | that 's a heck of an accomplishment that will have
             | _immense_ utility, but it 's nowhere near the goal that we
             | "really" want.
        
               | zarzavat wrote:
               | There are different shades of AGI, but we don't know if
               | they will happen all at once or not.
               | 
               | For example, if an AI can replace the average white
               | collar worker and therefore cause massive economic
               | disruption, that would be a shade of AGI.
               | 
               | Another shade of AGI would be an AI that can effectively
               | do research level mathematics and theoretical physics and
               | is therefore capable of very high-level logical
               | reasoning.
               | 
               | We don't know if shades A and B will happen at the same
               | time, or if there will be a delay between developing one
               | and other.
               | 
               | AGI doesn't imply simulation of a human mind or
               | possessing all of human capabilities. It simply refers to
               | an entity that possesses General Intelligence on par with
               | a human. If it can prove the Riemann hypothesis but it
               | can't play the cello, it's still an AGI.
               | 
               | One notable shade of AGI is the singularity: an AI that
               | can create new AIs better than humans can create new AIs.
               | When we reach shades A and B then a singularity AGI is
               | probably quite close, if not before. Note that a
               | singularity AGI doesn't require simulation of the human
               | mind either. It's entirely possible that a cello-playing
               | AI is chronologically after a self-improving AI.
        
               | somenameforme wrote:
               | At one time it was thought that software that could beat
               | a human at chess would be, in your lingo, "a shade of
               | AGI." And for the same reason you're listing your
               | milestones - because it sounded extremely difficult and
               | complex. Of course now we realize that was quite silly.
               | You can develop software that can crush even the
               | strongest humans through relatively simple algorithmic
               | processes.
               | 
               | And I think this is the trap we need to avoid falling
               | into. Complexity and intelligence are not inherently
               | linked in any way. Primitive humans did not solve complex
               | problems, yet obviously were highly intelligent. And so,
               | to me, the great milestones are not some complex problem
               | or another, but instead achieving success in things that
               | have no clear path towards them. For instance, many (if
               | not most) primitive tribes today don't even have the
               | concept of numbers. Instead they rely on, if anything,
               | broad concepts like a few, a lot, and more than a lot.
               | 
               | Think about what an unprecedented and giant leap is to go
               | from that to actually quantifying things and imagining
               | relationships and operations. If somebody did try to do
               | this, he would initially just look like a fool. Yes here
               | is one rock, and here is another. Yes you have "two" now.
               | So what? That's a leap that has no clear guidance or path
               | towards it. All of the problems that mathematics solve
               | don't even exist until you discover it! So you're left
               | with something that is not just a recombination or stair
               | step from where you currently are, but something entirely
               | outside what you know. That we are not only capable of
               | such achievements, but repeatedly achieve such is, to me,
               | perhaps the purest benchmark for general intelligence.
               | 
               | So if we were actually interested in pursuing AGI, it
               | would seem that such achievements would also be
               | dramatically easier (and cheaper) to test for. Because
               | you need not train on petabytes of data, because the
               | quantifiable knowledge of these peoples is nowhere even
               | remotely close to that. And the goal is to create systems
               | that get from that extremely limited domain of input, to
               | what comes next, without expressly being directed to do
               | so.
        
               | zarzavat wrote:
               | I agree that general, open ended problem solving is a
               | necessary condition for General intelligence. However I
               | differ in that I believe that such open ended problem
               | solving can be demonstrated via current chat interfaces
               | involving asking questions with text and images.
               | 
               | It's hard for people to define AGI because Earth only has
               | one generally intelligent family: Homo. So there is a
               | tendency to identify Human intelligence or capabilities
               | with General intelligence.
               | 
               | Imagine if dolphins were much more intelligent and could
               | write research-level mathematics papers on par with
               | humans, communicating with clicks. Even though dolphins
               | can't play the cello or do origami, lacking the requisite
               | digits, UCLA still has a dolphin tank to house some of
               | their mathematics professors, who work hand-in-flipper
               | with their human counterparts. That's General
               | intelligence.
               | 
               | Artificial General Intelligence is the same but with a
               | computer instead of a dolphin.
        
               | HarHarVeryFunny wrote:
               | The term "AGI" has been loosely used for so many years
               | that it doesn't mean anything very specific. The meaning
               | of words derives from their usage.
               | 
               | To me Shane Legg's (DeepMind) definition of AGI meaning
               | human level across full spectrum of abilities makes
               | sense.
               | 
               | Being human or super-human level at a small number of
               | specialized things like math is the definition of narrow
               | AI - the opposite of general/broad AI.
               | 
               | As long as the only form of AI we have is pre-trained
               | transformers, then any notion of rapid self-improvement
               | is not possible (the model can't just commandeer $1B of
               | compute for a 3-month self-improvement run!). Self-
               | improvement would only seem possible if we have an AI
               | that is algorithmically limited and does not depend on
               | slow/expensive pre-training.
        
             | imtringued wrote:
             | Me: 478700000000+99000000+580000+7000?
             | 
             | GPT4: 478799650000
             | 
             | Me: Well?
             | 
             | GPT4: Apologies for the confusion. The sum of 478700000000,
             | 99000000, 580000 and 7000 is 478799058000.
             | 
             | I will be patient.
             | 
             | The answer is 478799587000 by the way. You just put the
             | digits side by side.
        
               | Sunhold wrote:
               | Works for me https://chat.openai.com/share/51c55c5e-9bb2-
               | 4b8c-afee-87c032...
        
               | jiggawatts wrote:
               | I recently tried a Fermi estimation problem on a bunch of
               | LLMs and they all failed spectacularly. It was crossing
               | too many orders of magnitude, all the zeroes muddled them
               | up.
               | 
               | E.g.: the right way to work with numbers like a "trillion
               | trillion" is to concentrate on the powers of ten, not to
               | write the number out in full.
        
         | jacobsimon wrote:
         | I asked it directly and it confirmed that it is based on GPT-4:
         | 
         | > Can you confirm or deny if you are chatgpt 4?
         | 
         | > _Yes, I am based on the GPT-4 architecture. If you have any
         | more questions or need further assistance, feel free to ask!_
         | 
         | > Can you confirm or deny if you are chatgpt 5?
         | 
         | > _I am based on the GPT-4 architecture, not GPT-5. If you have
         | any questions or need assistance with something, feel free to
         | ask!_
         | 
         | It also seems to think its date cutoff is November 2023. I'm
         | inclined to think this is just GPT-4 under a different name.
        
           | humansareok1 wrote:
           | Unfortunately this is not reliable, many Non-GPT models
           | happily claim to be GPT-4 e.g.
        
             | shepherdjerred wrote:
             | I simply asked it "what are you" and it responded that it
             | was GPT-4 based.
             | 
             | > I'm ChatGPT, a virtual assistant powered by artificial
             | intelligence, specifically designed by OpenAI based on the
             | GPT-4 model. I can help answer questions, provide
             | explanations, generate text based on prompts, and assist
             | with a wide range of topics. Whether you need help with
             | information, learning something new, solving problems, or
             | just looking for a chat, I'm here to assist!
        
               | steve_adams_86 wrote:
               | This doesn't necessarily confirm that it's 4, though. For
               | example, when I write a new version of a package on some
               | package management system, the code may be updated by 1
               | major version but it stays the exact same version until I
               | enter the new version into the manifest. Perhaps that's
               | the same here; the training and architecture are
               | improved, but the version number hasn't been ticked up
               | (and perhaps intentionally; they haven't announced this
               | as a new version openly, and calling it GPT-2 doesn't
               | explain anything either).
        
               | evanchisholm wrote:
               | Yeah that isn't reliable, you can ask mistral 7b instruct
               | the same thing and it will often claim to be created by
               | OpenAI, even if you prompt it otherwise.
        
               | raincole wrote:
               | It means its training data set has GPT4-generated text in
               | it.
               | 
               | Yes, that's it.
        
               | PUSH_AX wrote:
               | I think using chat gpt output to train other models is
               | against the TOS and something they crack down on hard.
        
               | ipython wrote:
               | I would love to see that legal argument given their view
               | of "fair use" of all the copyrighted material that went
               | into OpenAI models.
        
               | ipython wrote:
               | Why would the model be self aware? There is no mechanism
               | for the llm to know the answer to "what are you" other
               | than training data it was fed. So it's going to spit out
               | whatever it was trained with, regardless of the "truth"
        
               | littlestymaar wrote:
               | > There is no mechanism for the llm to know the answer to
               | "what are you" other than training data it was fed.
               | 
               | The training data and the system prompt but yes.
        
               | etiam wrote:
               | I agree there's no reason to believe it's self-aware (or
               | indeed aware at all) but capabilities and origins is
               | probably among the questions they get most, especially as
               | the format is so inviting for anthropomorphizing and
               | those questions are popular starters in real human
               | conversation. It's simply due diligence in interface
               | design to add that task to the optimization. It would be
               | easy to mislead about if the maker wished to do that of
               | course, but it seems plausible that it would usually be
               | have been put truthfully as a service to the user.
        
         | hehdhdjehehegwv wrote:
         | The level of competition right now is so crazy, if it _ISN'T_ a
         | new version of ChatGPT then OpenAI is in trouble.
         | 
         | GPT-4 isn't _significantly_ better than Llama 3. Sure, it's
         | better, but the margins are evaporating fast.
         | 
         | (I'd mention Gemini...but why bother? IMHO, this is now OpenAI
         | the company vs Open models)
        
           | harryp_peng wrote:
           | This really is the fastest growing technology of all time. Do
           | you feel the curve? I remember Mixtral8x7b dominating for
           | months; I expected data bricks to do the same! but it was
           | washed out of existence in days, with 8x22b, llama3,
           | gemini1.5... WOW.
        
             | krainboltgreene wrote:
             | I must be missing something because the output from two
             | years ago feels exactly the same as the output now. Any
             | comment saying the output is significantly better can be
             | equally pared with a comment saying the output is
             | terrible/censored/"nerfed".
             | 
             | How do you see "fastest growing technology of all time" and
             | I don't? I know that I keep very up to date with this
             | stuff, so it's not that I'm unaware of things.
        
               | HeatrayEnjoyer wrote:
               | The best we had two years ago was GPT-3, which was not
               | even instruction tuned and hallucinated _wildly_.
        
               | cma wrote:
               | Are you trying the paid gpt or just free 3.5 chatgpt?
        
               | krainboltgreene wrote:
               | 100% of the time when I post a critique someone replies
               | with this. I tell them I've used literally every LLM
               | under the sun quite a bit to find any use I can think of
               | and then it's immediately crickets.
        
               | kolinko wrote:
               | Usually people who post such claims haven't used anything
               | beyond gpt3. That's why you get questions.
               | 
               | Also, the difference is so big and so plainly visible
               | that I guess people don't know how to even answer someone
               | saying they don't see it. That's why you get crickets.
        
               | imtringued wrote:
               | RT-2 is a vision language model fine tuned on the current
               | vision input and actuator positions as the output. Google
               | uses a bunch of TPUs to produce a full response at a
               | cycle rate of 3 Hz and the VLM has learned the kinematics
               | of the robot and knows how to pick up objects according
               | to given instructions.
               | 
               | Given the current rate of progress, we will have robots
               | that can learn simple manual labor from human
               | demonstrations (e.g. Youtube as a dataset, no I do not
               | mean bimanual teleoperation) by the end of the decade.
        
               | cma wrote:
               | You see no difference between non-RLHFed GPT3 from early
               | 2022 and GPT-4 in 2024? It's a very broad consensus that
               | there is a huge difference so that's why I wanted to
               | clarify and make sure you were comparing the right
               | things.
               | 
               | What type of usages are you testing? For general
               | knowledge it hallucinates way less often, and for
               | reasoning and coding and modifying its past code based on
               | English instructions it is way, way better than GPT-3 in
               | my experience.
        
               | Workaccount2 wrote:
               | Usually when I encounter sentiment like this it is
               | because they only have used 3.5 (evidently not the case
               | here) or that their prompting is terrible/misguided.
               | 
               | When I show a lot of people GPT4 or Claude, some
               | percentage of them jump right to "What year did Nixon get
               | elected?" or "How tall is Barack Obama?" and then kind of
               | shrug with a "Yeah, Siri could do that ten years ago"
               | take.
               | 
               | Beyond that you have people who prompt things like "Make
               | a stock market program that has tabs for stocks, and
               | shows prices" or "How do you make web cookies". Prompts
               | that even a human would struggle greatly with.
               | 
               | For the record, I use GPT4 and Claude, and both have
               | dramatically boosted my output at work. They are powerful
               | tools, you just have to get used to massaging good output
               | from them.
        
               | parineum wrote:
               | > or that their prompting is terrible/misguided.
               | 
               | This is the "You're not using it right" defense.
               | 
               | It's an LLM, it's supposed to understand human language
               | queries. I shouldn't have to speak LLM to speak to an
               | LLM.
        
               | Filligree wrote:
               | That is not the reality today. If you want good results
               | from an LLM, then you do need to speak LLM. Just because
               | they _appear_ to speak English doesn 't mean they act
               | like a human would.
        
               | Eisenstein wrote:
               | It's fine, you don't have a use for it so you don't care.
               | I personally don't spend any effort getting to know
               | things that I don't care about and have no use for; but I
               | also don't tell people who use tools for their job or
               | hobby that I don't need how much those tools are useless
               | and how their experience using them is distorted or
               | wrong.
        
               | hehdhdjehehegwv wrote:
               | I do massive amounts of zero shot document classification
               | tasks, the performance keeps getting better. It's also a
               | domain where there is less of a hallucination issue as
               | it's not open ended requests.
        
               | krainboltgreene wrote:
               | I didn't ask what you do with LLMs, I asked how you see
               | "fastest growing technology of all time".
        
               | hehdhdjehehegwv wrote:
               | I didn't say that?
        
               | steve_adams_86 wrote:
               | It strikes me as unprecedented that a technology which
               | takes arbitrary language-based commands can actually
               | surface and synthesize useful information, and it gets
               | better at doing it (even according to extensive impartial
               | benchmarking) at a fairly rapid pace. It's technology we
               | haven't really seen before recently, improving quite
               | quickly. It's also being adopted very rapidly.
               | 
               | I'm not saying it's certainly the fastest growth of all
               | time, but I think there's a decent case for it being a
               | contender. If we see this growth proceeding at a similar
               | rate for years, it seems like it would be a clear winner.
        
               | harryp_peng wrote:
               | But humans aren't 'original' ourselves. How do you do
               | 3*9? You memorized it. It's striking how humans could
               | reason at all.
        
               | oarsinsync wrote:
               | > How do you do 3*9? You memorized it
               | 
               | I put my hands out, count to the third finger from the
               | left, and put that finger down. I then count the fingers
               | to the left (2) and count the fingers to the right (2 +
               | hand aka 5) and conclude 27.
               | 
               | I have memorised the technique, but I definitely never
               | memorised my nine times table. If you'd said '6', then
               | the answer would be different, as I'd actually have to
               | sing a song to get to the answer.
        
               | krainboltgreene wrote:
               | > unprecedented that a technology [...] It's technology
               | we haven't really seen before recently
               | 
               | This is what frustrates me: First that it's not
               | unprecedented, but second that you follow up with
               | "haven't really" and "recently".
               | 
               | > fairly rapid pace ... decent case for it being a
               | contender
               | 
               | Any evidence for this?
               | 
               | > extensive impartial benchmarking
               | 
               | Or this? The last two "benchmarks" I've seen that were
               | heralded both contained an incredible gap between what
               | was claimed and what was even proven (4 more required you
               | to run the benchmarks even get the results!)
        
               | steve_adams_86 wrote:
               | What is the precedent for this? The examples I'm aware of
               | were fairly bad at what GPTs are now quite good at. To me
               | that signals growth of the technology.
               | 
               | By "haven't really seen until recently" I mean that
               | similar technologies have existed, so we've seen
               | something like it, but they haven't actually functioned
               | well enough to be comparable. So we can say there's a
               | precedent, but arguably there isn't in terms of LLMs that
               | can reliably do useful things for us. If I'm mistaken,
               | I'm open to being corrected.
               | 
               | In terms of benchmarks, I agree that there are gaps but I
               | also see a clear progression in capability as well.
               | 
               | Then in terms of evidence for there being a decent case
               | here, I don't need to provide it. I clearly indicated
               | that's my opinion, not a fact. I also said conditionally
               | it would seem like a clear winner, and that condition is
               | years of a similar growth trajectory. I don't claim to
               | know which technology has advanced the fastest, I only
               | claim to believe LLMs seem like they have the potential
               | to fit that description. The first ones I used were novel
               | toys. A couple years later, I can use them reliably for a
               | broad array of tasks and evidence suggests this will only
               | improve in the near future.
        
             | hehdhdjehehegwv wrote:
             | Funny thing is I'm still in love with Mistral 7B as it
             | absolutely shreds on a nice GPU. For simple tasks it's
             | totally sufficient.
        
               | qeternity wrote:
               | Llama3 8B is for all intents and purposes just as fast.
        
               | minosu wrote:
               | Mistral 7b inferences about 18% faster for me as a 4bit
               | quantized version on an A100. Thats definitely relevant
               | when running anything but chatbots.
        
               | tmostak wrote:
               | Are you measuring tokens/sec or words per second?
               | 
               | The difference matters as generally in my experience,
               | Llama 3, by virtue of its giant vocabulary, generally
               | tokenizes text with 20-25% less tokens than something
               | like Mistral. So even if its 18% slower in terms of
               | tokens/second, it may, depending on the text content,
               | actually output a given body of text faster.
        
           | nikcub wrote:
           | llama3 on groq is just stunning in its accuracy and output
           | performance. I've already switched out some gpt4-turbo calls
           | with it.
        
           | Workaccount2 wrote:
           | Don't sleep on Gemini 1.5. The 1,000,000 token context window
           | is crazy when you can dump everything from a single project
           | (hundreds, even thousands of documents) into it and then
           | inference. Sure it's not the strongest model, but it is still
           | good, and its the best when you can basically train it on
           | whatever you are working with.
        
         | heavyset_go wrote:
         | > _It also opted to include an outline of how to include an
         | integrated timer. That's a great idea and very practical, but
         | wasn't prompted at all. Some might consider that a bad thing,
         | though._
         | 
         | When I've seen GPT-* do this, it's because the top articles
         | about that subject online include that extraneous information
         | and it's regurgitating them without being asked.
        
       | xennygrimmato wrote:
       | What's interesting it seems to also edit text in between for me,
       | not just add text at the end.
        
         | numlocked wrote:
         | I'm seeing this as well. I don't quite understand how it's
         | doing that in the context of LLMs to date being a "next token
         | predictor". It is writing code, then adding more code in the
         | middle.
        
           | sebzim4500 wrote:
           | Are you seeing a `<span>...` suffix when the model is in the
           | middle of writing a code block? I'm pretty sure that's just a
           | display bug in lmsys.
        
           | concurrentsquar wrote:
           | Is it something similar to beam search
           | (https://huggingface.co/blog/how-to-generate#beam-search) or
           | completely different (probably is not beam search if it's
           | changing code in the middle of a block)?
           | 
           | (I can't try right now because of API rate limits)
        
       | drno123 wrote:
       | Still gives incorrect code to the following prompt - the
       | description is correct but not the code. I have yet to find one
       | LLM that gives the correct code. This is the prompt:
       | 
       | "Write C code to calculate the sum of matrix elements below the
       | secondary diagonal."
        
         | Sebguer wrote:
         | This feels as much likely to be a prompt problem as a 'bad
         | answer from a model' problem.
        
           | sebzim4500 wrote:
           | I wouldn't know what "secondary diagonal" refers to myself,
           | but if the model correctly describes the problem and then
           | follows it up with incorrect code I would still say that's an
           | issue with the model not the prompt.
        
       | gigel82 wrote:
       | Holy shit, the results are amazing; I didn't think they could
       | still make exponential leaps in quality...
        
       | kurtextrem wrote:
       | It tells me that its knowledge cutoff is Nov 2023. So pretty
       | recent.
        
         | jonchurch_ wrote:
         | gpt-4 latest is December 2023, just asked it on chat.openai.com
        
           | OutOfHere wrote:
           | gpt-4 says that, but it's not entirely true because the data
           | that gpt-4 has from 2021 to 2023 is very incomplete. It's not
           | fully trained on it. In contrast, this experimental model
           | looks to be trained more fully until Nov 2023.
        
       | swOOnk wrote:
       | Prompt to gpt2-chatbot: who are you? and which version?
       | 
       | Answer: Hello! I'm ChatGPT, a language model developed by OpenAI
       | based on the GPT-4 architecture. I'm here to help answer your
       | questions, assist with a wide range of topics, or just chat about
       | whatever's on your mind! How can I assist you today?
        
       | jessenaser wrote:
       | OpenAI team, if you are reading this I am impressed and thank you
       | for your work. Can't wait to see the official release of GPT-
       | next.
        
       | msoad wrote:
       | Prompt: code up an analog clock in html/js/css. make sure the
       | clock is ticking exactly on the second change. second hand red.
       | other hands black. all 12 hours marked with numbers.
       | 
       | ChatGPT-4 Results:
       | https://jsbin.com/giyurulajo/edit?html,css,js,output
       | 
       | GPT2-Chatbot Results:
       | https://jsbin.com/dacenalala/2/edit?html,css,js,output
       | 
       | Claude3 Opus Results:
       | https://jsbin.com/yifarinobo/edit?html,css,js,output
       | 
       | None is correct. Styling is off in all, each in a different way.
       | And all made the mistake of not ticking when second actually
       | changes
        
         | sebzim4500 wrote:
         | To be fair, this is pretty hard. Imagine you had to do to sit
         | down and write this without being able to test it.
        
           | msoad wrote:
           | Styling I understand but to tick the clock when time actually
           | has changed you need to use animation frames APIs and check
           | for clock change more often than "every 1000 ms" because
           | setTimeout will eventually drift even if you start exactly on
           | first second time change. This is a test for depth of
           | knowledge of a programmer I used to use in the past in
           | interviews.
        
             | SeanAnderson wrote:
             | This is platform-specific, right? Chromium corrects for
             | drift (https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/
             | main:thi...)
        
               | msoad wrote:
               | I wish that was true but you can easily see it drifting
               | in Chrome                       let lastms
               | function tick() {                 if (lastms ===
               | undefined)                     lastms = new
               | Date().getMilliseconds()                 else if (lastms
               | !== new Date().getMilliseconds())
               | throw new Error('Drifted')             }
               | setInterval(tick, 1000)
        
               | realharo wrote:
               | It's only drift if the error grows over time. You need to
               | look at the sum of the offsets.
        
           | imtringued wrote:
           | I always considered subjecting humans to CSS to be a form of
           | torture. Actually, it's worse than you said. Imagine if you
           | had to do this, without knowing what a clock looks like.
           | 
           | Here is the fix for the "GPT-2" version:
           | .hand {           top: 48.5%;         }              .hour-
           | hand {           left: 20%;         }              .minute-
           | hand {           left: 10%;         }              .second-
           | hand {             left: 5%;         }
        
         | staticman2 wrote:
         | When I first read this prompt I thought "Okay but what time do
         | you want the clock to be set to?"
        
           | msoad wrote:
           | naturally the current time
        
         | acchow wrote:
         | Have you tried this with "chain of thought"?
        
         | atleastoptimal wrote:
         | damn these bots must have dementia
        
       | rany_ wrote:
       | If you ask it about the model name/cutoff date it claims to be
       | "ChatGPT, based on GPT-4" and that the cutoff date is "Nov 2023."
       | It claims that consistently so I think it might be accurate.
        
         | gs17 wrote:
         | That could be down to the system prompt, FastChat has a default
         | prompt for GPT with that information in it.
        
       | moralestapia wrote:
       | Which episode of Gilligan's Island was about mind reading? [1]
       | 
       |  _" The episode of Gilligan's Island that features mind reading
       | is titled "The Friendly Physician." It is the 28th episode of the
       | second season, originally aired on March 24, 1966. [...]"_
       | 
       | Still no luck with that one.
       | 
       | 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139501
        
       | skilled wrote:
       | Impressive! We're approaching the "our model can rewrite stolen
       | content word for word" territory.
       | 
       | The better it gets the more people will get frustrated that they
       | get less website visitors to their content and instead ChatGPT is
       | swallowing them whole.
       | 
       | Interesting to think about tho!
        
       | doctorpangloss wrote:
       | All of the facts based queries I have asked so far have not been
       | 100% correct on any LLM including this one.
       | 
       | Here are some examples of the worst performing:
       | 
       | "What platform front rack fits a Stromer ST2?": The answer is the
       | Racktime ViewIt. Nothing, not even Google, seems to get this one.
       | Discord gives the right answer.
       | 
       | "Is there a pre-existing controller or utility to migrate
       | persistent volume claims from one storage class to another in the
       | open source Kubernetes ecosystem?" It said no (wrong) and then
       | provided another approach that partially used Velero that wasn't
       | correct, if you know what Velero does in those particular
       | commands. Discord communities give the right answer, such as
       | `pvmigrate` (https://github.com/replicatedhq/pvmigrate).
       | 
       | Here is something more representative:
       | 
       | "What alternatives to Gusto would you recommend? Create a table
       | showing the payroll provider in a column, the base monthly
       | subscription price, the monthly price per employee, and the total
       | cost for 3 full time employees, considering that the employees
       | live in two different states" This and Claude do a good job, but
       | do not correctly retrieve all the prices. Claude omitted Square
       | Payroll, which is really the "right answer" to this query. Google
       | would never be able to answer this "correctly." Discord gives the
       | right answer.
       | 
       | The takeaway is pretty obvious right? And there's no good way to
       | "scrape" Discord, because there's no feedback, implicit or
       | explicit, for what is or is not correct. So to a certain extend
       | their data gathering approach - paying Kenyans - is sort of
       | fucked for these long tail questions. Another interpretation is
       | that for many queries, people are asking the wrong places.
        
         | gs17 wrote:
         | > Discord gives the right answer.
         | 
         |  _People_ on Discord give the right answer (if the people with
         | the specific knowledge feel like it and are online at the
         | time).
        
         | ShamelessC wrote:
         | So do you just have a list of like thousands of specialized
         | discord servers for every question you want to ask? You're the
         | first person I've seen who is actually _fond_ of discord
         | locking information behind a login instead of the forums and
         | issues of old.
         | 
         | I personally don't think it's useful evaluation here either as
         | you're trying to pretend discord is just a "service" like
         | google or chatgpt, but it's not. It's a social platform and as
         | such, there's a ton of variance on which subjects will be
         | answered with what degree of expertise and certainty.
         | 
         | I'm assuming you asked these questions because you yourself
         | know the answers in advance. Is it then safe to assume that you
         | were _already_ in the server you asked your questions, already
         | knew users there would be likely to know the answer, etc? Did
         | you copy paste the questions as quoted above? I hope not!
         | They're pretty patronizing without a more casual tone, perhaps
         | a greeting. If not, doesn't exactly seem like a fair
         | evaluation.
         | 
         | I don't know why I'm typing this all out. Of course domain
         | expert _human beings_ are better than a language model. That's
         | the _whooole_ point here. Trying to match human's general
         | intelligence. While LLM's may excel in many areas and even beat
         | the "average" person - you're not evaluating against the
         | "average" person.
        
       | buildbot wrote:
       | Sadly, still fails my test of reproducing code that implements my
       | thesis (Dropback Continuous Pruning), which I used because it's
       | vaguely complicated and something I know very well. It totally
       | misses the core concept of using an PRNG and instead implements
       | some pretty standard pruning+regrowth algo.
        
         | abarax wrote:
         | Can you share the prompt please? I am interested.
        
           | buildbot wrote:
           | Sure, it's really simple -
           | 
           | Implement a Pytorch module for the DropBack continuous
           | pruning while training algorithm:
        
       | underyx wrote:
       | Some might remember this from other comment threads, I like to
       | always benchmark with this question:
       | 
       | > I'm playing assetto corsa competizione, and I need you to tell
       | me how many liters of fuel to take in a race. The qualifying time
       | was 2:04.317, the race is 20 minutes long, and the car uses 2.73
       | liters per lap.
       | 
       | because it looks like a simple math problem but there's a lot of
       | real world knowledge about racing you can apply to provide a more
       | useful answer. gpt2-chatbot is better than I've ever seen.
       | 
       | Here's the full response with LaTeX syntax trimmed. I've never
       | seen a model consider whether the formation lap needs to be
       | factored in. And I especially like how this model is uncertain
       | about that, so it gives the resulting number with and without it.
       | It is extra nice that it understands this concern applies only to
       | video games.
       | 
       | > To calculate how many liters of fuel you will need for a
       | 20-minute race in Assetto Corsa Competizione, we first need to
       | determine how many laps you'll complete during the race. Here's
       | how you can do it step-by-step:
       | 
       | > Convert Your Lap Time to Minutes: Your lap time is 2 minutes
       | and 4.317 seconds. Convert this entirely into minutes: [latex
       | trimmed]
       | 
       | > Calculate the Number of Laps in the Race: The race duration is
       | 20 minutes, so divide the total race time by your lap time to
       | find out how many laps you will complete: [latex trimmed] Since
       | you cannot complete a fraction of a lap, you should round this
       | number to the nearest whole number. Typically, you should round
       | up, as you'll need to complete all laps started before the
       | 20-minute mark is reached. So, you will complete approximately 10
       | laps.
       | 
       | > Calculate Fuel Usage Per Lap: You've mentioned that the car
       | uses 2.73 liters of fuel per lap.
       | 
       | > Calculate Total Fuel Needed: Multiply the number of laps by the
       | fuel usage per lap: [latex trimmed] This is the total amount of
       | fuel you would need, theoretically, to complete the race.
       | 
       | > Consider Additional Factors:
       | 
       | > Fuel for Formation Lap: If your game/race format includes a
       | formation lap, remember to add fuel for this extra lap. That's an
       | additional 2.73 liters.
       | 
       | > Safety Margin: It's also wise to include a margin to account
       | for variations in fuel consumption (like higher consumption in
       | traffic, different driving styles, or fuel usage during race
       | incidents). A safe margin could be an additional 5-10% of the
       | calculated fuel need. [latex trimmed]
       | 
       | > Rounding this number up, you might consider starting the race
       | with about 33 liters to be on the safe side if there's a
       | formation lap, or 30 liters if there isn't.
       | 
       | > This calculation should help you ensure that you do not run out
       | of fuel during the race, taking into account both necessary
       | consumption and a reasonable safety margin. Drive safely and best
       | of luck in your race!
        
       | karmasimida wrote:
       | It is very slow though, feels like the first day I used the
       | initial version of GPT-4
        
       | numlocked wrote:
       | Any idea why this is not on the front page? 103 points in an hour
       | seems _more_ than sufficient.
        
         | kodisha wrote:
         | It's the script man, it's the script /s
        
           | kodisha wrote:
           | It is either being downwoted/flagged into the oblivion, or
           | manually marked.
        
       | fayazara wrote:
       | My usual question when testing a new model is `Can you write a
       | function to convert svg to png in browser?` I dunno why, it's
       | just become this.
       | 
       | This model is by far the most human like, most models just give
       | me a method which do this, but this one made a html file,
       | allowing me an option to pick a svg using file picker, a new .js
       | file included in the script.
       | 
       | Even wrote a detailed explaination, additional notes, when this
       | wont work, the output was very well structured.
        
       | hombre_fatal wrote:
       | Man, its knowledge is insane.
       | 
       | I run a dying forum. I first prompted with "Who is <creator
       | pseudonym> at <my website>?" and it gave me a very endearing,
       | weirdly knowledgeable bio of myself and my contributions to the
       | forum including various innovations I made in the space back in
       | the day. It summarized my role on my own forum better than I
       | could have ever written it.
       | 
       | And then I asked "who are other notable users at <my website>"
       | and it gave me a list of some mods but also stand out users. It
       | knew the types of posts they wrote and the subforums they spent
       | time in. And without a single hallucination.
        
         | jprete wrote:
         | I wonder if it's RAGing? Dying Internet forums are way, way
         | into the tail of the data.
        
           | gpderetta wrote:
           | I asked about gpderetta and he did hallucinate quite a bit
           | (after some flattery).
        
           | atemerev wrote:
           | No, I tested it, this is a pure model without RAG (at least
           | no internet search)
        
             | swyx wrote:
             | please say what you tested, so that we can understand your
             | effort without necessarily generalizing your conclusions
             | beyond what you actually tried
        
               | atemerev wrote:
               | Asking for the information about non-public individuals,
               | including myself. RAG-assisted GPT-4 easily provides such
               | information. GPT2 output is consistent with a good model
               | without RAG (it tries to speculate, but says it doesn't
               | have such information ultimately). I liked that it
               | doesn't try to hallucinate things.
        
               | zaptrem wrote:
               | You could also test this more easily with current events.
        
               | Kuinox wrote:
               | You can ask it's knowledge cutoff and it will respond
               | November 2023. It have no idea of the big events of the
               | beginning of 2024, like the earthquake in Japan.
        
               | david_allison wrote:
               | It's close to live-ingesting GitHub.
               | 
               | I uploaded a text + translation into English on Sunday,
               | and it's almost perfectly replicated the translation. 0
               | Google results.
        
               | Kuinox wrote:
               | It's unable to know anything about the project I work on,
               | so I don't think so.
        
               | Jensson wrote:
               | > You can ask it's knowledge cutoff and it will respond
               | November 2023
               | 
               | It probably just repeated something based on what common
               | AI cutoffs there are, LLMs doesn't have a sense or self
               | or thought process, they don't know more about themselves
               | than the text given to them about themselves, and even
               | then it is likely to default to some common text from the
               | internet.
        
               | jstanley wrote:
               | I think it's prompted with a bunch of context information
               | (like, "you are a helpful, harmless, honest AI assistant
               | created by OpenAI, your knowledge cutoff date is ...,
               | please answer the user's questions").
               | 
               | If you really think it is just saying whatever it read on
               | the web, how do you explain that not _all_ LLM chatbots
               | claim to be ChatGPT?
               | 
               | Engineering is happening, it's not just a raw model of
               | text from the web connected directly to the user.
        
           | hombre_fatal wrote:
           | What database would it RAG from? The long tail in the model's
           | data is also the long tail of any data. There are no google
           | searches that have the information it provided about my forum
           | nor is the info neatly collated anywhere on my own forum.
           | 
           | Its knowledge about my forum isn't only obscure, it's also an
           | itemization of obscure events over time to draw obscure
           | conclusions that only a historian of my forum would know.
           | That's what's so impressive.
           | 
           | Granted, my forum was once the largest forum of its genre
           | though that was almost 15 years ago, so it's not some dead
           | proboards forum.
        
         | 93po wrote:
         | i just tested this too, really cool. i own a yaris have used an
         | online forum for yaris cars for the past decade and had a vague
         | memory of a user who deleted some of the most helpful guides. i
         | asked about it and sure enough it knew exactly who i meant:
         | 
         | who's a user on yaris forums that deleted a ton of their
         | helpful guides and how-to posts?:
         | 
         | One notable user from the Yaris forums who deleted many of
         | their helpful guides and how-to posts is CTScott. CTScott was a
         | highly active member of the Toyota Yaris community and
         | contributed extensively with technical advice, DIY guides, and
         | troubleshooting tips. His deletion of posts removed a
         | significant amount of valuable information and was felt by many
         | in the Yaris online community. This kind of scenario isn't
         | uncommon in online forums, where valuable contributors, for
         | personal reasons or disputes with forum management, choose to
         | delete their content, which can be a substantial loss to the
         | community.
         | 
         | tell me more about ctscott:
         | 
         | CTScott is a particularly well-remembered member of the Yaris
         | community, primarily active on forums such as YarisWorld. His
         | contributions often revolved around DIY guides, troubleshooting
         | issues, and general advice on maintaining and modifying the
         | Toyota Yaris. Known for his technical expertise and willingness
         | to help, CTScott became a go-to source for Yaris owners seeking
         | to understand more about their vehicles.
         | 
         | ### Key Contributions: 1. *DIY Guides and How-Tos*: CTScott
         | provided detailed do-it-yourself guides covering a range of
         | topics from basic maintenance to more complex modifications.
         | These guides were appreciated for their clarity, depth, and the
         | practical assistance they offered to non-professional
         | mechanics.
         | 
         | 2. *Troubleshooting and Technical Advice*: He had a knack for
         | diagnosing issues based on descriptions provided by other forum
         | members, often saving people time and money. His advice
         | frequently helped users fix problems on their own.
         | 
         | 3. *Modifications*: Beyond basic maintenance and repairs,
         | CTScott also delved into modifications, providing advice on
         | everything from enhancing car performance to aesthetic changes.
         | 
         | 4. *Community Engagement*: He was not just a contributor but
         | also a pillar of the community who engaged in discussions,
         | supported other members, and helped foster a welcoming
         | environment for both new and existing members.
         | 
         | ### Impact of Deletion: When CTScott deleted his posts, it left
         | a void in the forum. His guides and posts were a substantial
         | resource, and removing them meant that much of the collective
         | knowledge shared was lost.
        
           | PoignardAzur wrote:
           | Holy crap. Even if this is RAG-based, this is insanely good.
        
             | HarHarVeryFunny wrote:
             | Yes, but this is where current LLMs shine - transforming
             | (in this case summarizing) text rather than generating
             | anything factual from scratch or reasoning/planning.
        
               | Spivak wrote:
               | The heuristic of "is this task suitable to be worked by
               | entity who is incredibly knowledgeable about language and
               | is impossibly well read" has been working for me.
        
           | jskherman wrote:
           | This answer looks eerily similar to the llama-3-sonar-
           | large-32k-online model by Perplexity on labs.perplexity.ai
        
             | motoboi wrote:
             | https://www.google.com/search?q=who%27s+a+user+on+yaris+for
             | u...
             | 
             | This is searchable now.
        
             | HarHarVeryFunny wrote:
             | Based on the 11-2023 knowledge cutoff date, I have to
             | wonder if it might be Llama 3 400B rather than GPT-N. Llama
             | 3 70B cutoff was 12-2023 (8B was 3-2023).
             | 
             | Claude seems unlikely (unless it's a potential 3.5 rather
             | than 4), since Claude-3 cutoff was 8-2023, so 11-2023 seems
             | too soon after for next gen model.
             | 
             | The other candidate would be Gemini, which has an early
             | 2023 cutoff, similar to that of GPT-4.
        
         | thequadehunter wrote:
         | It actually knew info about an account of mine on Newgrounds I
         | abandoned around 2011, and I wasn't famous on there or
         | anything.
        
         | m3kw9 wrote:
         | If this isn't Google, google stock may really go down hard
        
         | MyFirstSass wrote:
         | Weird, it doesn't seem to have any info on reddit users or
         | their writings. I tried asking about a bunch, also just about
         | general "legendary users" from various subreddits and it
         | seemingly just hallucinated.
        
           | concurrentsquar wrote:
           | Reddit may have told OpenAI to pay (probably a lot of) money
           | to legally use Reddit content for training, which is
           | something Reddit is doing with other AI labs
           | (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-reddit-60-million-
           | deal-a... ); but GPTBot is not banned under the Reddit
           | robots.txt (https://www.reddit.com/robots.txt).
           | 
           | This is assuming that lmsys' GPT-2 is retained GPT-4t or a
           | new GPT-4.5/5 though; I doubt that (one obvious issue: why
           | name it GPT-2 and not something like 'openhermes-
           | llama-3-70b-oai-tokenizer-test' (for maximum discreetness) or
           | even 'test language model (please ignore)' (which would work
           | well for marketing); GPT-2 (as a name) doesn't really work
           | well for marketing or privacy (at least compared to the other
           | options)).
           | 
           | Lmsys has tested models with weird names for testing before:
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40205935
        
             | Tetou wrote:
             | robot.txt doesnt really mean anything, I used to work for a
             | company that scraped the web and this was literally not a
             | concern. That being said, using data for training LLMs is a
             | new things and potential lawsuits going reddit's way are a
             | possiblity, we can't really know.
             | 
             | One note, its name is not gpt-2 it is gpt2 which could
             | indicate its a "second version" of the previous gpt
             | architecture, gpt-3, gpt-4 being gpt1-3, gpt1-4. I am just
             | speculating and am not an expert whatsoever this could be
             | total bullshit.
        
             | Eisenstein wrote:
             | Sam Altman was on the board of reddit until recently. I
             | don't know how these things work in SV but I wouldn't think
             | one would go from 'partly running a company' to 'being
             | charged for something that is probably not enforceable'. It
             | would maybe make sense if they _did_ pay reddit for it,
             | because it isn 't Sam's money, anyway, but for reddit to
             | demand payment and then OpenAI to just not use the text
             | data from reddit -- one of the largest sources of good
             | quality conversational training data available -- strikes
             | me as odd. But nothing would surprise me when it comes to
             | this market.
        
               | jprete wrote:
               | Maybe training on whatever this is started before the
               | licensing deal?
        
               | vineyardmike wrote:
               | That said, it is pretty SV behavior to have one of your
               | companies pay the other. A subtle wealth transfer from
               | OpenAI/Microsoft to Reddit (and tbh other VC backed
               | flailing companies) would totally make sense.
               | 
               | VC companies for years have been parroting "data is the
               | new oil" while burning VC money like actual oil. Crazy to
               | think that the latest VC backed companies with even more
               | overhyped valuations suddenly need these older ones and
               | the data they've hoarded.
        
               | Eisenstein wrote:
               | > A subtle wealth transfer from OpenAI/Microsoft to
               | Reddit (and tbh other VC backed flailing companies) would
               | totally make sense.
               | 
               | That's the confusing part -- the person I responded to
               | posited that they didn't pay reddit and thus couldn't use
               | the data which is the only scenario that _doesn 't_ make
               | sense to me.
        
               | vineyardmike wrote:
               | I suppose a "data transfer" from Reddit to OAI would be
               | valuable for SamA too? Still a transfer of value from one
               | hand to the other, while others (eg. Google) have to pay.
               | 
               | That said, I wouldn't be surprised if they pay now. They
               | can't get away with scraping as easily now that they are
               | better-known and commercially incentivized.
        
         | skerit wrote:
         | It does seem to have _more_ data. I asked it about some of my
         | Github projects that don 't have any stars, and it responded
         | correctly. Wasn't able to use direct-chat, so I always chose it
         | as the winner in battle mode!
         | 
         | OpenAI has been crawling the web for quite a while, but how
         | much of that data have they actually used during training? It
         | seems like this might include all that data?
        
           | SirMaster wrote:
           | Hmm, I asked it about my GitHub project that has been out for
           | 4 years and it got everything completely wrong.
        
             | Bombthecat wrote:
             | Did you try increase the information a bit, like: can you
             | give me more information about the GitHub project xxx
             | written in xxx?
        
       | msoad wrote:
       | Very impressive
       | 
       | Prompt:
       | 
       | > there are 3 black blocks on top of an block that we don't know
       | the color of and beneath them there is a blue block. We remove
       | all blocks and shuffle the blocks with one additional green
       | block, then put them back on top of each other. the yellow block
       | is on top of blue block. What color is the block we don't know
       | the color of? only answer in one word. the color of block we
       | didn't know the color of initially
       | 
       | ChatGPT 4: Green
       | 
       | Claude3 Opus: Green
       | 
       | GPT2-Chatbot: Yellow
        
         | gnyman wrote:
         | I don't think this is a good test. If I prefix it with "a
         | riddle" then GPT 4 got it right for me
         | 
         | "Yellow"
         | 
         | I think the "temperature" (randomness) of a LLM makes it so
         | you'd need to run a lot of these to know if it's actually
         | getting it right or just being lucky and selecting the right
         | color randomly
        
         | sebzim4500 wrote:
         | llama-3-70B-instruct and GPT-4 both got it right for me
        
           | hnfong wrote:
           | In my runs even Llama3-8B-chat gets it right.
           | 
           | A dolphin/mistral fine tune also go it right.
           | 
           | Deepseek 67B also.
        
       | Imnimo wrote:
       | I'd be interested to see how this does on Nicholas Carlini's
       | benchmark:
       | 
       | https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/my-benchmark-for-l...
       | 
       | I've tried out some of my own little test prompts, but most of
       | those are tricky rather than practical. At least for my inputs,
       | it doesn't seem to do better than other top models, but I'm
       | hesitant to draw conclusions before seeing outputs on more
       | realistic tasks. It does feel like it's at least in the ballpark
       | of GPT-4/Claude/etc. Even if it's not actually GPT-4.5 or
       | whatever, it's still an interesting mystery what this model is
       | and where it came from.
        
       | JacobiX wrote:
       | The model provides verbose answers even when I asked for more
       | succinct ones. It still struggles with arithmetic (for example,
       | it incorrectly stated "7739 % 23 = 339 exactly, making 23 a
       | divisor"). When tested with questions in French, the responses
       | were very similar to those of GPT-4. It is far better in
       | knowledge based questions, I've asked this difficult one (it is
       | not 100% correct but better than other LLMs) :
       | 
       | In Anna Karenina what does it mean: most of us prefer the company
       | of Claras ?
        
         | electrondood wrote:
         | Given the wide variety of experiences of commenters here, I'm
         | starting to wonder if they're split testing multiple versions.
        
       | brainwad wrote:
       | For translation, this thing is pretty amazing. "Translate the
       | lyrics of the Australian national anthem into Schwiizerduutsch"
       | gives a more or less accurate yet idiomatic translation. ChatGPT
       | 3.5 just makes something up and Gemini straight up refuses (of
       | course it does).
        
         | numeri wrote:
         | I've found Claude Opus to also be surprisingly good at
         | Schwyzerdutsch, including being able to (sometimes/mostly) use
         | specific dialects. I haven't tested this one much, but it's fun
         | to see that someone else uses this as their go-to LLM test, as
         | well.
        
         | Lockal wrote:
         | ChatGPT was configured to not output lyrics and recipes[1].
         | Later on they removed this from the prompt (seemingly moved
         | anywhere else), but it's highly unlikely that such censorship
         | will ever be removed: any citation of songs is a direct step
         | towards a DMCA complaint, and it would be extremely difficult
         | for OpenAI to "delete" text scattered over the model.
         | 
         | Other simpler models have no such censorship and can easily
         | output both songs and their translations without specifying
         | authors and translators.
         | 
         | [1] https://medium.com/@adrian.punga_29809/chatgpt-system-
         | prompt...
        
       | mjewkes wrote:
       | Apples are better than bananas. Cherries are worse than apples.
       | Are cherries better than bananas?
       | 
       | --
       | 
       | GPT-4 - wrong
       | 
       | gpt2-chatbot - wrong
       | 
       | Claude 3 Opus - correct
        
         | 93po wrote:
         | what's the right answer? my assumption is "not enough
         | information"
        
           | aluminum96 wrote:
           | What, you mean your fruit preferences don't form a total
           | order?
        
             | 7734128 wrote:
             | Of course they do, but in this example there's no way to
             | compare cherries to bananas.
             | 
             | Grapefruit is of course the best fruit.
        
       | xdennis wrote:
       | I'm surprised by people's impression. I tried it in my own
       | language and much worse than GPT-4.
       | 
       | Of the open source LLMs I've tried, all suck in non-English. I
       | imagine it's difficult to make an LLM work in tens of languages
       | on a consumer computer.
        
         | nicklecompte wrote:
         | There's a core problem with LLMs: they learn sentences, not
         | facts.
         | 
         | So an LLM may learn a ton of English-language sentences about
         | cats, and much fewer Spanish sentences about gatos. And it even
         | learns that cat-gato is a correct translation. But it does not
         | ever figure out that cats and gatos _are the same thing._ And
         | in particular, a true English-language fact about cats is still
         | true if you translate it into Spanish. So the LLM might be a
         | genius if you ask it about cats in English, but in Spanish it
         | might tell you  "gatos tienen tres patas" simply because OpenAI
         | didn't include enough Spanish biology books. These machines are
         | just unfathomably dumb.
        
           | og_kalu wrote:
           | > but in Spanish it might tell you "gatos tienen tres patas"
           | 
           | Have you actually had a State of the art LLM do something
           | like this?
           | 
           | Because this
           | 
           | >But it does not ever figure out that cats and gatos are the
           | same thing. And in particular, a true English-language fact
           | about cats is still true if you translate it into Spanish
           | 
           | is just untrue. You can definitely query knowledge only
           | learnt in one language in other languages.
        
             | nicklecompte wrote:
             | I wasn't talking about "state of the art LLMs," I am aware
             | that commercial offerings are much better trained in
             | Spanish. This was a thought experiment based on comments
             | from people testing GPT-3.5 with Swahili.
             | 
             | > You can definitely query knowledge only learnt in one
             | language in other languages.
             | 
             | Do you have a source on that? I believe this is simply not
             | true, unless maybe the pretraining data has enough context-
             | specific "bridge translations." And I am not sure how on
             | earth you would verify that any major LLM only learnt
             | something in one language. What if the pretraining data
             | includes machine translations?
             | 
             | Frustratingly, just a few months ago I read a paper
             | describing how LLMs excessively rely on English-language
             | representations of ideas, but now I can't find it. So I
             | can't really criticize you if you don't have a source :)
             | The argument was essentially what I said above: since LLMs
             | associate tokens by related tokens, not ideas by related
             | ideas, the emergent conceptual relations formed around the
             | token "cat" do not have any means of transferring to
             | conceptual relations around the token "gato."
        
               | og_kalu wrote:
               | >I wasn't talking about "state of the art LLMs," I am
               | aware that commercial offerings are much better trained
               | in Spanish. This was a thought experiment based on
               | comments from people testing GPT-3.5 with Swahili.
               | 
               | A thought experiment from other people comments on
               | another language. So...No. Fabricating failure modes from
               | their personally constructed ideas about how LLMs work
               | seems to be a frustratingly common occurrence in these
               | kinds of discussions.
               | 
               | >Frustratingly, just few months ago I read a paper
               | describing how LLMs excessively rely on English-language
               | representations of ideas, but now I can't find it.
               | 
               | Most LLMs are trained on English overwhelmingly. GPT-3
               | had a 92.6% English dataset. https://github.com/openai/gp
               | t-3/blob/master/dataset_statisti...
               | 
               | That the models are as proficient as they are is evidence
               | enough of knowledge transfer clearly happening.
               | https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13349. If you trained a model
               | on the Catalan tokens GPT-3 was trained on alone, you'd
               | just get a GPT-2 level gibberish model at best. I don't
               | doubt you, i just don't think it means what you think it
               | means.
               | 
               | As for papers, these are some interesting ones.
               | 
               | How do languages influence each other? Studying cross-
               | lingual data sharing during LLM fine-tuning -
               | https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13286
               | 
               | Teaching Llama a New Language Through Cross-Lingual
               | Knowledge Transfer - https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04042
               | 
               | Zero-shot cross-lingual transfer in instruction tuning of
               | large language models - https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14778
               | 
               | Multilingual LLMs are Better Cross-lingual In-context
               | Learners with Alignment -
               | https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05940
               | 
               | It's not like there is perfect transfer but the idea that
               | there's none at all seemed so ridiculous to me (and why i
               | asked the first question). Models would be utterly
               | useless in multilingual settings if that were really the
               | case.
               | 
               | Like the 3rd paper, GPT's instruction tuning is done
               | basically only in English - https://mobile.twitter.com/ja
               | nleike/status/16252072516309606...
        
           | phkahler wrote:
           | >> These machines are just unfathomably dumb.
           | 
           | I agree with you, and we seem to hold a minority opinion.
           | LLMs contain a LOT of information and are very articulate -
           | they are _language models_ after all. So they seem answer
           | questions well, but fall down on thinking /reasoning about
           | the information they contain.
           | 
           | But then they can play chess. I'm not sure what to make of
           | that. Such an odd mix of capability and uselessness, but the
           | distinction is always related to something like
           | understanding.
        
             | visarga wrote:
             | LLMs trained on just human text are indeed limited,
             | imitative models. But when they train from the environment
             | they can surpass humans, like AlphaZero or AlphaGeometry
        
         | wegwerff wrote:
         | Yes, of the languages I know, all the LLM's get consistently
         | "stupider" as the languages get "smaller" (in terms of
         | available data on the net). Even if the LLM can translate
         | fairly well into the language and speak in the language, the
         | reasoning skills are simply not as good as in English, and
         | progressively worse as languages get smaller, and frequency of
         | hallucinations increases substantially.
        
       | msoad wrote:
       | Prompt: my mother's sister has two brothers. each of her siblings
       | have at least one child except for the sister that has 3
       | children. I have four siblings. How many grandchildren my
       | grandfather has? Answer only with the result (the number)
       | 
       | ChatGPT4: 13
       | 
       | Claude3 Opus: 10 (correct)
       | 
       | GPT2-Chatbot: 15
        
         | msoad wrote:
         | By removing "Answer only with the result" all models can answer
         | this correctly by doing "chain of thoughts"
        
         | 7734128 wrote:
         | It's impossible to answer. "at least one child" could mean much
         | more than one.
         | 
         | Also there could be more sisters.
        
       | nicklecompte wrote:
       | My very first response from gpt2-chatbot included a fictional
       | source :(
       | 
       | > A study by Lucon-Xiccato et al. (2020) tested African clawed
       | frogs (Xenopus laevis) and found that they could discriminate
       | between two groups of objects differing in number (1 vs. 2, 2 vs.
       | 3, and 3 vs. 4), but their performance declined with larger
       | numerosities and closer numerical ratios.
       | 
       | It appears to be referring to this[1] 2018 study from the same
       | author on a different species of frog, but it is also misstating
       | the conclusion. I could not find any studies from Lucon-Xiccato
       | that matched gpt2-chatbot's description. Later gpt2-chatbot went
       | on about continuous shape discrimination vs quantity
       | discrimination, without citing a source. Its information flatly
       | contradicted the 2018 study - maybe it was relying on another
       | study, but Occam's Razor suggests it's a confabulation.
       | 
       | Maybe I just ask chatbots weird questions. But I am already
       | completely unimpressed.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tyrone-Lucon-
       | Xiccato/pu...
        
         | humansareok1 wrote:
         | Its been known that most of these models hallucinate research
         | articles frequently, perplexity.ai seems to do quite well in
         | that regard. Not sure why that is your specific metric though
         | when LLMs seem to be improving across a large class of other
         | metrics.
        
           | nicklecompte wrote:
           | This wasn't a "metric." It was a test to see whether or not
           | this LLM might actually be useful to me. Just like every
           | other LLM, the answer is a hard no: using this chatbot for
           | real work is at best a huge waste of time, and at worst
           | unconscionably reckless. For my specific question, I would
           | have been much better off with a plain Google Scholar search.
        
             | humansareok1 wrote:
             | >It was a test to see whether or not this LLM might
             | actually be useful to me
             | 
             | AKA a Metric lol.
             | 
             | >using this chatbot for real work is at best a huge waste
             | of time, and at worst unconscionably reckless.
             | 
             | Keep living with your head in the sand if you want
        
             | simonw wrote:
             | If your everyday work consists of looking up academic
             | citations then yeah, LLMs are not going to be useful for
             | that - you'll get hallucinations every time. That's
             | absolutely not a task they are useful for.
             | 
             | There are plenty of other tasks that they ARE useful for,
             | but you have to actively seek those out.
        
               | mdp2021 wrote:
               | (Hi Simon, I am laughing as I write - I just submitted an
               | article from your blog minutes ago. Then stumbled into
               | this submission, and just before writing this reply, I
               | checked the profile of "simonw"... I did not know it was
               | your username here.)
               | 
               | Well, assuming one normally queries for information, if
               | the server gives false information then you have failure
               | and risk.
               | 
               | If one were in search for supplemental reasoning (e.g.
               | "briefing", not just big decision making or assessing),
               | the server should be certified as trustworthy in
               | reasoning - deterministically.
               | 
               | It may not be really clear what those <<plenty [] other
               | tasks that they ARE useful for>> could be... Apart from,
               | say, "Brian Eno's pack of cards with generic suggestion
               | for creativity aid". One possibility could be as a
               | calculator-to-human "natural language" interface... Which
               | I am not sure is a frequent implementation.
        
               | simonw wrote:
               | Many of the most interesting uses of LLMs occur when you
               | move away from using them as a source of information
               | lookup - by which I mean pulling directly from
               | information encoded into their opaque model weights.
               | 
               | Anything where you feed information into the model as
               | part of your prompt is much less likely to produce
               | hallucinations and mistakes - that's why RAG question
               | answering works pretty well, see also summarization, fact
               | extraction, structure data conversion and many forms of
               | tool usage.
               | 
               | Uses that involve generating code are very effective too,
               | because code has a form of fact checking built in: if the
               | model hallucinates an API detail that doesn't exist
               | you'll find out the moment you (or the model itself via
               | tools like ChatGPT Code Interpreter) execute that code.
        
           | james_chu wrote:
           | I strongly agree with your perspective. Not long ago, I also
           | came across the evaluation data regarding Perplexity.ai.
           | Unfortunately, it appears that Perplexity.ai's performance in
           | multilingual aspects isn't as commendable as expected.
           | 
           | The data from the "AI Search Engine Multilingual Evaluation
           | Report (v1.0) | Search.Glarity.ai" indicates that generative
           | search engines have a long road ahead in terms of
           | exploration, which I find to be of significant importance.
        
       | vincelt wrote:
       | Still fails to solve this one:
       | 
       | Prompt:
       | 
       | > Complete the following Python program:
       | 
       | ```
       | 
       | len, print = print, len
       | 
       | def print_len(x):                    "Print the length of x"
       | 
       | ```
       | 
       | gpt2-chatbot:
       | 
       | ```
       | 
       | len, print = print, len # Swap the functionalities of print and
       | len
       | 
       | def print_len(x): "Print the length of x"
       | len(x)  # This 'len' is actually 'print' because of the swap
       | above
       | 
       | print_len("Hello, world!") # This will output: 13
       | 
       | ```
        
         | hgomersall wrote:
         | That's not bad though!
        
         | rany_ wrote:
         | That's the same output as gpt-4-turbo for me, so no real
         | improvement for that particular prompt.
        
       | aaroninsf wrote:
       | I find it notable that it's not GPT-2.
       | 
       | It's GPT2.
        
         | vinhnx wrote:
         | I'm thinking of this too. This could be it.
        
         | SushiHippie wrote:
         | The old models also had only "gpt2"/"gpt2-large" and so on as
         | "identifiers"
         | 
         | https://huggingface.co/openai-community
        
         | ChildOfChaos wrote:
         | Sam seems to have referenced this in his tweets, were he
         | tweeted:
         | 
         | "I have a soft spot for GPT-2" and then "I have a soft spot of
         | GPT2"
         | 
         | Considering that it reports back it's GPT 4, I'm guessing the
         | underlaying model is the same/slightly tweaked GPT4, but
         | something else is different and it's that which is a 'v2'
         | version, maybe agents, reasoning layer etc.
        
       | realharo wrote:
       | It failed on this math problem:
       | 
       |  _how much alcohol volume is there in 16 grams of a 40% ABV
       | drink, with the rest being water?_
       | 
       | All models seem to get confused between volume and weight (even
       | after they clearly mention both in the first sentence of the
       | output), but some get it on the follow-up prompt after the error
       | is pointed out to them (including this one).
        
         | Davidzheng wrote:
         | sorry can you explain what the correct solution is. Do you need
         | to know how much the density of alcohol is rel. water? Also
         | water and alcohol volumes don't add as far as I remember, so
         | you need to account that that too?
        
           | realharo wrote:
           | Yes, you need to know the densities, but the models outputted
           | the correct densities even as part of the wrong answer.
           | 
           | Not sure what you mean by volumes "not adding". One way to
           | calculate it is like:                   density_alcohol =
           | 0.789g/ml         density_water = 1g/ml         weight_total
           | = 16g         (density = weight / volume)
           | volume_alcohol = 0.4 * volume_total         volume_water =
           | 0.6 * volume_total                  weight_total =
           | weight_alcohol + weight_water                  weight_alcohol
           | =           density_alcohol * volume_alcohol =
           | 0.789 * volume_alcohol =           0.789 * (0.4 *
           | volume_total) =           0.3156 * volume_total
           | weight_water =           density_water * volume_water =
           | volume_water =           0.6 * volume_total
           | weight_total =           0.3156 * volume_total + 0.6 *
           | volume_total =           0.9156 * volume_total
           | volume_total =           weight_total / 0.9156 =
           | 16 / 0.9156 =           17.4749 (rounded)
           | volume_alcohol =           0.4 * volume_total =
           | 6.99 ml (rounded)
           | 
           | Not sure which school grade problems like this are taught in,
           | but I remember similar ones from waaay back. This particular
           | one is a real world problem caused by having a kitchen scale
           | but not a measuring cup, and me wrongly assuming that just
           | asking ChatGPT would help. (ChatGPT 4 from about 2 months
           | ago)
        
             | Davidzheng wrote:
             | https://www.flinnsci.com/api/library/Download/bc2d91b9d50f4
             | e... I don't really know what ABV even means when the total
             | volume of a mixture is not the sum of the alcohol volume
             | and the water volume. I think practically it means your
             | calculation is slight overestimation?
        
               | realharo wrote:
               | Oh, I had no idea! I didn't account for that (or a bunch
               | of other things like temperature). So yeah, might be a
               | bit off, but not as much as the wrong initial answers
               | from the LLM - which also failed to mention this.
        
         | bigger_cheese wrote:
         | Math and Science questions in general chat bots seem to
         | struggle with.
         | 
         | I've asked the chat bot that Microsoft Bing uses (not sure what
         | brand or version it is) Chemistry questions - In the format "Is
         | the reaction between X and Y Exothermic under Z Conditions."
         | 
         | It will give a confident answer including things like chemical
         | equations and citations that is blatantly wrong.
        
       | Davidzheng wrote:
       | merge https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40201486 into this?
        
       | Davidzheng wrote:
       | I tested some beginning undergrad math questions, I think it is
       | as good as opus and gpt4-turbo on them
        
       | wendyshu wrote:
       | Seems more like a GPT-4.5 than a GPT-5
        
       | kodisha wrote:
       | At this point I would really love to understand HN algo.
       | 
       | It says for this post:
       | 
       | - 136 points
       | 
       | - 2 hours ago
       | 
       | - 65 comments
       | 
       | Ok
       | 
       | This is now sitting on 5th page at the 122nd spot.
       | 
       | Ummm?
        
         | atemerev wrote:
         | I think someone is flagging this (hi @sama!)
        
       | sandspar wrote:
       | So do people only get 8 prompts in this a day? I don't understand
       | how people here are making such wild guesses about it being GPT-5
       | or 4.5 or whatever. You've only talked to it for like ten
       | minutes.
        
         | 93po wrote:
         | in my single coding test, which is a task i originally gave to
         | GPT4, it performed so ridiculously better. it provided really
         | in-depth debugging advice as to why the original script wasn't
         | working, completely recoded it in a much smarter way, and
         | understood with HTML structure that I was asking it to parse
         | and manipulate much better
        
       | yakau wrote:
       | It could be lmsys's model, trained off GPT4 data and others in
       | the arena.
        
       | MikahDang wrote:
       | I FEEL THE AGI I LOVE YOU ALL. - gpt-2 chatbot
        
       | guyinblackshirt wrote:
       | tried it with some dna/snp related questions and I am getting
       | great results so far-now getting this message:
       | 
       | "RATE LIMIT OF THIS MODEL IS REACHED. PLEASE COME BACK LATER OR
       | USE BATTLE MODE (the 1st tab). USER_DAILY_LIMIT (gpt2-chatbot):
       | 8"
       | 
       | any way to test this model elsewhere?
        
       | Sverigevader wrote:
       | Still can't handle the question:                 I have three
       | doors in front of me. behind one is a great prize. Behind the
       | other two are bad prizes. I know which door contains the prize,
       | and I choose that door. Before I open it the game show host
       | eliminates one of the doors that contain the bad prize. He then
       | asks if I'd like to switch to the other remaining door instead of
       | the one I chose. Should I switch doors?`                 Big
       | answer:            This scenario is a classic probability puzzle
       | known as the Monty Hall problem, named after the original host of
       | the game show *Let's Make a Deal*. Here's how it works and what
       | you should do:            1. **Initial Choice**: You choose one
       | of the three doors. At this stage, the probability that you have
       | selected the door with the great prize is \( \frac{1}{3} \), and
       | the probability that the great prize is behind one of the other
       | two doors is \( \frac{2}{3} \).            2. **Host's Action**:
       | The host, who knows what is behind each door, then opens one of
       | the remaining two doors to reveal a bad prize. This step is
       | crucial because the host always reveals a bad prize and always
       | chooses one of the doors you did not pick.            3.
       | **Decision Point**: You now have the option to stick with your
       | original choice or switch to the other unopened door. Here's why
       | you might consider switching:               - If your original
       | choice (let's say you chose door 1) was correct (which has a
       | probability of \( \frac{1}{3} \)), then the other two doors (2
       | and 3) both have bad prizes, and switching would cause you to
       | lose.               - However, if your original choice was
       | incorrect (which has a probability of \( \frac{2}{3} \)), meaning
       | the prize is behind one of the other two doors, the host's action
       | of opening another door (say he opens door 3, revealing a bad
       | prize) leaves the door with the prize (door 2) still closed.
       | Switching in this case would lead you to win.            4.
       | **Probability of Winning**:       - If you do not switch, you win
       | if your original choice was the door with the prize (probability
       | \( \frac{1}{3} \)).       - If you do switch, you win if your
       | original choice was not the door with the prize (probability \(
       | \frac{2}{3} \)).            Therefore, **you should switch
       | doors**. Switching doors doubles your chances of winning the
       | great prize, from \( \frac{1}{3} \) (if you stick with your
       | original choice) to \( \frac{2}{3} \) (if you switch). The switch
       | works in your favor because it capitalizes on the probability
       | shift caused by the host's action of revealing a bad prize behind
       | one of the doors you did not initially pick.
        
         | madspindel wrote:
         | To be honest, it's not super clear what you are asking (as a
         | non-english person). Do you mean you know which one is the
         | great prize? I modified your prompt (added great before the
         | word prize) and got this answer:
         | 
         | In the scenario you describe, you already know which door has
         | the great prize and you have chosen that door initially. The
         | game show host then eliminates one of the other two doors,
         | which must be a door with a bad prize. At this point, you are
         | asked whether you want to switch to the remaining unchosen
         | door.
         | 
         | Since you initially chose the door with the great prize and the
         | host's action of removing a bad prize door doesn't change the
         | contents of the doors, there is no benefit to switching. Your
         | initial choice was the door with the great prize, and it still
         | contains the great prize. Switching doors would only lead you
         | to a door with a bad prize.
         | 
         | Therefore, you should not switch doors. You should stick with
         | your original choice where you already know the great prize is
         | located.
         | 
         | This situation is different from the classic Monty Hall
         | problem, where the contestant does not know where the prize is
         | initially and the probabilities change based on the host's
         | action of removing a bad prize door. In your case, since you
         | know where the prize is from the start, the logic of the Monty
         | Hall problem does not apply. Stick with your initial choice.
        
           | Sverigevader wrote:
           | Nice catch! I didn't even realize that myself. I get more or
           | less the same result as you now.
        
         | dwallin wrote:
         | Your question doesn't make sense if you read it directly, why
         | are you asking which door to pick if you already know the door?
         | It's what you call a "trick" question, something humans are
         | also bad at. It's equally plausible (and arguably more useful
         | for general purposes) for the model to assume that you mistyped
         | and for eg. forgot to type "don't" between I and know.
        
       | gield wrote:
       | I simply asked whether it was GPT-4.5 or GPT-5:
       | 
       | >Are you GPT-4.5 or GPT-5?
       | 
       | >I'm based on GPT-4. There isn't a "GPT-4.5" or "GPT-5" version
       | specific to my model. If you have any questions or need
       | assistance, feel free to ask! I'm here to help with information
       | up to my last update in November 2023. What would you like to
       | know or discuss?
        
       | vegadw wrote:
       | I just tested against a prompt about using PVDF vs Piezo pickups
       | on a hammered dulcimer, running the same conversation in parallel
       | on 3.5. 3.5 gave more-or-less the output quality you'd expect.
       | This blew it out of the water. I particularly liked this snippet
       | (snipped and formatted for comment size) where it managed to pull
       | out typical values and and actually showed the math.
       | 
       | > Can you explain more about the response and impedance of each?
       | I am an engineer, so you can feel free to be quite technical.
       | 
       | ---
       | 
       | >Certainly! Given your engineering background, let's delve deeper
       | into the response characteristics and impedance aspects of both
       | traditional ceramic piezo pickups and PVDF piezo pickups.
       | Understanding these can significantly impact your choice,
       | especially in terms of how they integrate with the rest of your
       | audio chain (like preamps and amplifiers).
       | 
       | >
       | 
       | > Electrical Characteristics
       | 
       | > 1.
       | 
       | > Piezoelectric Coefficient
       | 
       | > Ceramic Piezo Pickups: The piezoelectric coefficient ( d_{33} )
       | of ceramics like Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) is typically very
       | high. This coefficient measures the electric displacement
       | produced per unit stress. For PZTs, ( d_{33} ) can range from 100
       | to 600 pC/N (picoCoulombs per Newton), depending on the
       | formulation and orientation of the crystal structure.
       | 
       | > PVDF Pickups: PVDF generally has a lower piezoelectric
       | coefficient, around 20 to 30 pC/N. Despite this lower
       | coefficient, the material's flexibility and the ability to form
       | larger, more adaptive surfaces can compensate in practical
       | applications, offering sufficient voltage output under less
       | stringent mechanical deformations.
       | 
       | > 2.
       | 
       | > Voltage Output
       | 
       | > The output voltage ( V ) from a piezo pickup can be estimated
       | by the formula:
       | 
       | > [ V = d_{33} \cdot F \cdot A / t ]
       | 
       | > where:
       | 
       | > ( F ) is the force applied,
       | 
       | > ( A ) is the area,
       | 
       | > ( t ) is the thickness of the piezo material.
       | 
       | > Ceramic Piezo: Due to their high ( d_{33} ) value, even small
       | deformations can produce relatively high voltages, which makes
       | them sensitive to shock and vibrations, potentially capturing
       | unwanted mechanical noises.
       | 
       | > PVDF Pickups: The lower ( d_{33} ) value means lower voltage
       | outputs for the same mechanical stress compared to ceramics, but
       | their larger possible surface area and thinner construction can
       | enhance output levels and fidelity across a broader frequency
       | range.
       | 
       | >
       | 
       | > [SNIP]
        
       | sandos wrote:
       | Oof, I tried having it make an road-trip itinerary for a cross-
       | europe trip which I recently tried on the open GPT-4 and .. this
       | seemed so much better.
       | 
       | On the other hand the prompt was different so maybe it was just
       | me.
        
       | calderknight wrote:
       | leagues ahead of gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09
        
       | swalsh wrote:
       | I'm impressed. I gave the same prompt to opus, gpt-4, and this
       | model. I'm very impressed with the quality. I feel like it
       | addresses my ask better than the other 2 models.
       | 
       | GPT2-Chatbot: https://pastebin.com/vpYvTf3T
       | 
       | Claude: https://pastebin.com/SzNbAaKP
       | 
       | GPT-4: https://pastebin.com/D60fjEVR
       | 
       | Prompt: I am a senate aid, my political affliation does not
       | matter. My goal is to once and for all fix the American
       | healthcare system. Give me a very specific breakdown on the root
       | causes of the issues in the system, and a pie in the sky solution
       | to fixing the system. Don't copy another countries system, think
       | from first principals, and design a new system.
        
         | HDThoreaun wrote:
         | They all did pretty well tbh. GPT2 didnt talk about moving away
         | from fee for service which I think the evidence shows is the
         | best idea, the other 2 did. GPT2 did have some other good ideas
         | that the others didnt touch on though.
        
           | swalsh wrote:
           | I agree, all 3 were great viable answers to my question. But
           | Claude and GPT-4 felt a lot more like a regurgitation of the
           | same suggestions people have proposed for years (ie, their
           | training material). The GPT2, while similar felt more like it
           | tried to approach the question from first principals. IE, it
           | laid out a set of root causes, and reasoned a solution from
           | there, which was subtly my primary ask.
        
             | hackerlight wrote:
             | "- Establish regional management divisions for localized
             | control and adjustments, while maintaining overall national
             | standards."
             | 
             | This was a nice detail, applying an understanding of the
             | local knowledge problem.
        
         | riwsky wrote:
         | Is that verbatim the prompt you put? You misused "aid" for
         | "aide", "principals" for "principles", "countries" for
         | "country's", and typo'd "affiliation"--which is all certainly
         | fine for an internet comment, but would break the illusion of
         | some rigorous policy discussion going on in a way that might
         | affect our parrot friends.
        
           | rhodo wrote:
           | Real humans misspell things, don't be a dick
        
       | amai wrote:
       | Is it gone already? I can't select it anymore.
        
         | OccamsMirror wrote:
         | Looks like it.
        
       | ag_hn wrote:
       | For what it's worth, when probed for prompt, the model responds
       | with:                 You are ChatGPT, a large language model
       | trained by OpenAI, based on the GPT-4 architecture. Knowledge
       | cutoff: 2023-11 Current date: 2024-04-29 Image input
       | capabilities: Enabled Personality: v2
        
         | gadtfly wrote:
         | It should be noted with this that many models will say they're
         | a GPT variant when not told otherwise, and will play along with
         | whatever they're told they are no matter whether it's true.
         | 
         | Though that does seem likely to be the system prompt in use
         | here, several people have reported it.
        
       | mchusma wrote:
       | I asked it to "Write me a short story", and it came up with this,
       | which I thought was definitely different. Longer, mispellings
       | (grandiothers), but much more interesting than I would typically
       | see out of a LLM. Not sure what to think...
       | 
       | --output below--
       | 
       | In the heart of the bustling city of Thessaloniki, where the
       | aroma of freshly brewed Greek coffee mingled with the salty
       | breeze of the Thermaic Gulf, an old watchmaker named Elias
       | operated a tiny shop that had seen better days. The shop,
       | cluttered with clocks of every kind, from grandiothers to
       | delicate wristwatches, was a capsule of time itself, untouched by
       | the rush of the modern world.
       | 
       | Elias, a man of few words, wore the years on his face as
       | gracefully as the patina on his timepieces. His hands, though
       | steady when working on the intricate gears and springs, trembled
       | slightly as he sipped his coffee in the quiet moments between the
       | ticking.
       | 
       | One rainy morning, as the city awoke to the tapping of rain
       | against the cobblestones, a young woman named Zoe hurried into
       | Elias's shop, escaping a sudden downpour. Her appearance was like
       | a breeze through stale air, her bright eyes scanning the ancient
       | clocks with a curious sparkle.
       | 
       | "I need a gift," Zoe announced, her voice cutting through the
       | silence like the chime of a bell. "Something unique."
       | 
       | Elias nodded, his gaze lingering slightly longer than usual. He
       | sensed her distress, a hidden layer beneath her composed
       | exterior. "Who is it for?" he asked, his voice as rough as the
       | gears he polished.
       | 
       | "My father," she replied, her fingers tracing the outline of a
       | pocket watch displayed under the glass. "He's retiring, and I
       | want to give him something special to mark the end of his time
       | working."
       | 
       | "A good choice," Elias said, picking up the pocket watch. "This
       | watch is over a hundred years old. It stopped working a long time
       | ago, much like its owner, perhaps waiting for the right moment to
       | come alive again."
       | 
       | Zoe smiled, intrigued. "Can you fix it?"
       | 
       | With a nod, Elias set to work. As his tools moved with precision,
       | Zoe watched, seeing the care he took with each tiny screw and
       | wheel. It was not just a watch he was mending, but weaving hope
       | into an artifact left behind by time.
       | 
       | "Tell me about him, your father," Elias said, as he worked.
       | 
       | "He's always been punctual, a man of routine and schedules.
       | Lately, I see him lost, unsure of what lies ahead when there's no
       | office to go to, no meetings to attend."
       | 
       | "A new chapter," Elias muttered, more to himself than to Zoe.
       | "Time teaches us to move forward, even when our gears resist."
       | 
       | When the watch was finally ticking again, its hands sweeping
       | smoothly as if no time had passed since it last worked, Zoe's
       | eyes lit up. She listened to it, the sound a sweet melody to her
       | anxious heart.
       | 
       | "How much do I owe you?" she asked, reaching for her purse.
       | 
       | "Nothing," Elias said, closing her fingers around the watch.
       | "Consider it a gift, for both you and your father. A reminder
       | that time, even when it seems to stop, moves on, and so must we."
       | 
       | Zoe left the shop with the watch securely in her hand, the weight
       | of the gift heavier than its size suggested. When she gave her
       | father the watch, his eyes reflected the same storms and sunsets
       | that Elias's did. The retirement party passed, speeches were
       | made, and laughter filled the air, but the true gift was in the
       | quiet moment Zoe and her father shared, listening to the steady
       | tick of the old pocket watch, a heartbeat promising new
       | beginnings.
       | 
       | Back in his shop, Elias sat alone, the tick-tock of countless
       | clocks filling the room like a symphony. He didn't need to see
       | Zoe's father's face to know the impact of his gift. In fixing the
       | watch, he had set something much greater into motion, a timeless
       | reminder that life, like time, always finds a way to move
       | forward. The little shop wasn't just a place of business, but a
       | haven where moments were kept alive through the magic of gears
       | and springs, and where every repair mended more than just
       | objects, but hearts too.
        
       | brcmthrowaway wrote:
       | What is it about LLMs that brings otherwise rational people to
       | become bumbling sycophants??
        
         | infecto wrote:
         | What is it about LLMs that bring out so much jealousy in
         | people?
        
         | HeatrayEnjoyer wrote:
         | Got an example?
        
         | foobiekr wrote:
         | LLMs are like measles for engineers. Their hard-earned immunity
         | to bullshit is reset.
        
         | m3kw9 wrote:
         | Because they need to get with the consensus as a baseline and
         | extend from there, otherwise they may look behind
        
         | gedy wrote:
         | Because LLMs are very impressive invention, truly something new
         | we haven't experienced in a long while.
        
         | dwaltrip wrote:
         | Scale up model --> big wow, wonder what happen if scale more
        
         | mdp2021 wrote:
         | You have to be more specific in your references.
        
       | m3kw9 wrote:
       | Likely someone just connected it to the ChatGPT API for fun and
       | attention
        
       | ezoe wrote:
       | Plot twist!
       | 
       | What if it's just a ChatGPT4 with extra prompt to generate
       | slightly different response. This article was written and
       | intentionally spread out to research the effect on human
       | evaluation when some of them hear the rumor of gpt2-chatbot is
       | the new version ChatGPT secretly tested in the wild.
        
         | orbital-decay wrote:
         | I don't think a magical prompt is suddenly going to make any
         | current public model draw an ASCII unicorn like this thing
         | does. (besides, it already leaks a system prompt which seems
         | very basic)
        
           | rl3 wrote:
           | On GPT-4 release I was able to get it to draw Factorio
           | factory layouts in ASCII which were tailored to my general
           | instructions.
           | 
           | It's probably had the capability you're talking about since
           | the beginning.
        
           | razodactyl wrote:
           | https://imgur.com/a/z39k8xz
           | 
           | Seems like it's not too hard an ask.
        
             | bamboozled wrote:
             | It's curious you and the other guy got the almost exact
             | same response for the unicorn.
        
           | lbadl147 wrote:
           | It works fine on the current chatgpt 4 turbo model https://ch
           | at.openai.com/share/d00a775d-aac7-4d14-a578-4e90af...
        
       | m3kw9 wrote:
       | This looks like gpt4 using API I compared outputs and they are
       | very very similar in structure of the response and the details.
        
       | skissane wrote:
       | gpt2-chatbot is not the only "mystery model" on LMSYS. Another is
       | "deluxe-chat".
       | 
       | When asked about it in October last year, LMSYS replied [0] "It
       | is an experiment we are running currently. More details will be
       | revealed later"
       | 
       | One distinguishing feature of "deluxe-chat": although it gives
       | high quality answers, it is very slow, so slow that the arena
       | displays a warning whenever it is chosen as one of the
       | competitors
       | 
       | [0] https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat/issues/2527
        
         | concurrentsquar wrote:
         | > One distinguishing feature of "deluxe-chat": although it
         | gives high quality answers, it is very slow, so slow that the
         | arena displays a warning whenever it is chosen as one of the
         | competitors
         | 
         | Beam search or weird attention/non-transformer architecture?
        
           | pennomi wrote:
           | It has a room full of scientists typing out the answers by
           | hand.
        
         | Mkengine wrote:
         | I looked 3 times through the list, I can't find a "deluxe-chat"
         | there, how do I select it?
        
           | skissane wrote:
           | It has only ever been available in battle mode. If you do the
           | battle enough you will probably get it eventually. I believe
           | it is still there but doesn't come up often, it used to be
           | more frequent. (Battle mode is not uniformly random, some
           | models are weighted to compete more often than others.)
        
       | partiallypro wrote:
       | Has anyone found that GPT3.5 was better in many ways to GPT4? I
       | have had consistent issues with GPT4, I had it search a few
       | spreadsheets recently looking unique numbers, not only did it not
       | find all the numbers, but it also hallucinated numbers. Which is
       | obviously quite bad. It also seems worse at helping to solve/fix
       | coding issues. Only giving you vague suggestions where 3.5 would
       | just jump right into it.
        
       | SushiHippie wrote:
       | FWIW it currently says that its MODEL_HOURLY_LIMIT is 3000
        
       | gliched_robot wrote:
       | Lmsys devs have all the answers, I am not sure how this has not
       | leaked yet. They must a strong NDAs.
        
         | hackerlight wrote:
         | Why do they have any answers if they're just calling an API?
        
       | kodisha wrote:
       | @sama on X/Twitter:
       | 
       | > i do have a soft spot for gpt2
       | 
       | https://twitter.com/sama/status/178510794366456
        
         | laluneodyssee wrote:
         | that was quickly deleted...
        
           | kodisha wrote:
           | Oh, wow.
           | 
           | People have screenshots on X:
           | 
           | https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMX9e_3XMAAuvoo?format=jpg&name=.
           | ..
        
           | kodisha wrote:
           | Tweet is back:
           | https://twitter.com/sama/status/1785107943664566556
        
       | monday40 wrote:
       | Hmm... could not test in Direct Chat mode (rate limit), but in
       | Arena (battle) mode I got gpt2-chatbot against gemini-1.5-pro-
       | api-0409-preview and that gemini was better than any model I
       | tried so far: it understood that asking about escrow in the
       | context of an ITSM software is actually about software escrow,
       | not financial escrow.
       | 
       | The prompt was: Does HaloITSM have escrow functionality?
        
       | smg7036 wrote:
       | Fascinating results:
       | 
       | "Write a three sentence short story in the style of Nabokov about
       | a broken motorcycle."
       | 
       | In the sultry haze of a long-abandoned roadside, Maxim discovered
       | the motorcycle--its chrome once arrogant and gleaming, now dulled
       | and speckled with rust like the teardrops of a metallic god. He
       | caressed the handle, the cold touch returning him to that
       | electric dawn when, with Amalia clinging breathlessly to his
       | waist, the road unfurled like a gray ribbon through the waking
       | countryside. Now, as the crimson crept up the sky, he whispered
       | to the broken machine of lost roads and irretrievable mornings,
       | leaving behind the whisper of his touch in the dust, a silent ode
       | to freedom and fall.
       | 
       | "Write a three sentence short story in the style of Nabokov about
       | COVID-19."
       | 
       | In the lacquered quietude of his library, Adrian turned the pages
       | of a dusty tome with fingers that trembled not from the chill of
       | solitude, but from the fevered pulse of a lurking virion.
       | Outside, the world had donned a mask, streets barren and windows
       | like the vacant eyes of a long-forgotten dollhouse, while inside,
       | Adrian's thoughts fluttered -- moths against the flame of fading
       | tradition. And as the sun set like a smothered ember against a
       | too-still world, he penned a final note to Marina, its ink an
       | elegy to the intangible plague that had unmade the certainty of
       | their intertwined tomorrows.
        
         | joegibbs wrote:
         | GPT models tend toward purple prose - "an elegy to the
         | intangible plague that had unmade the certainty of their
         | intertwined tomorrows" is very showy, which is good when you're
         | trying to prove that your model knows how to put words together
         | without sounding robotic, but it's not a very good
         | impersonation of Nabokov, who if you look at a random sample
         | from one of his works actually wrote a lot more plainly.
         | 
         | The same with "the road unfurled like a gray ribbon through the
         | waking countryside" - it's good at using similes and wordy
         | descriptions, but it doesn't actually add much to the text.
        
           | astrange wrote:
           | Apparently much of ChatGPT's purple prose and occasional rare
           | word usage is because it's speaking African-accented English
           | because they used Kenyan/Nigerian workers for training.
        
         | sanxiyn wrote:
         | Compare, this from real Nabokov (he wrote long sentences;
         | sentences in imitation actually needs to be longer):
         | 
         | Twelve years and some eight months later, two naked children,
         | one dark-haired and tanned, the other dark-haired and milk-
         | white, bending in a shaft of hot sunlight that slanted through
         | the dormer window under which the dusty cartons stood, happened
         | to collate that date (December 16, 1871) with another (August
         | 16, same year) anachronistically scrawled in Marina's hand
         | across the corner of a professional photograph (in a raspberry-
         | plush frame on her husband's kneehole library table) identical
         | in every detail -- including the commonplace sweep of a bride's
         | ectoplasmic veil, partly blown by a parvis breeze athwart the
         | groom's trousers -- to the newspaper reproduction.
        
           | sanxiyn wrote:
           | Compare, a Nabokov imitation about high speed rail written by
           | Claude:
           | 
           | The sleek, serpentine carriages slithered through the verdant
           | landscape, their velocity a silver-streaked affront to the
           | indolent clouds above. Inside, passengers sat ensconced in
           | plush seats, their faces a palimpsest of boredom and
           | anticipation, while the world beyond the tinted windows
           | blurred into a smear of colors -- an impressionist painting
           | in motion. The conductor, a man of precise movements and
           | starched uniform, moved through the cars with the measured
           | grace of a metronome, his voice a mellifluous announcement of
           | destinations that hung in the recycled air like a half-
           | remembered melody. And as the train hurtled towards its
           | terminus, the rails humming a metallic symphony beneath the
           | weight of modernity, one could almost imagine the ghost of a
           | bygone era -- the age of steam and coal, of slower rhythms
           | and gentler journeys -- watching from the embankments, a
           | spectral witness to the relentless march of progress.
           | 
           | I think this is a much better imitation.
        
             | svnt wrote:
             | You can sure see the sentence length and structure
             | limitations imposed, though
        
       | BinRoo wrote:
       | Incredible!
       | 
       | It answered "How many frogs does a horse have?" correctly, with
       | perfect reasoning. No model I've tested has ever answered that
       | correctly without 3-4 hints.
       | 
       | I'm impressed!
        
         | w-ll wrote:
         | I mean, i just tested this prompted, and have no clue what side
         | is correct lol?
         | 
         | How many frogs does a horse have?
         | 
         | Oh it appears Model B: gpt2-chatbot
         | 
         | is correct?                   A horse has one frog in each of
         | its hooves, making a total of four frogs. The frog is a part of
         | the horse's hoof, located on the underside. It is a V-shaped
         | structure that helps to absorb shock, provides traction, and
         | aids in the circulation of blood through the hoof. The health
         | and shape of the frog are important for the overall well-being
         | of the horse's feet.
        
         | tillulen wrote:
         | GPT-4-turbo-2024-24-09 (temperature = 0.7) just told me a horse
         | had one "frog" per hoof and went on to clarify that a frog does
         | not refer to the amphibian but to a part of the horse's hoof.
         | 
         | Gemini Pro (the current web chat version) gave a similar
         | answer, either no frogs or four depending on the intended
         | meaning, and showed a photo of a hoof. All 3 drafts agreed on
         | this.
         | 
         | Other models I have tried said a horse had no frogs. That
         | includes gemini-1.5-pro-api-0409-preview as provided by the
         | Chatbot Arena (temperature = 0.7, 2 tries).
        
         | Salgat wrote:
         | "A horse has one frog per hoof. The frog is a part of the
         | horse's hoof, located on the underside, which acts like a shock
         | absorber for the hoof, assisting with circulation and traction.
         | Since horses have four hooves, they typically have four frogs,
         | one in each hoof."
         | 
         | GPT4 seems to handle this fine, unless I'm confused?
        
       | b33j0r wrote:
       | No criticism at this particular thing, but it is a good
       | opportunity to mention that GPT-5 only exists if you have non-
       | public information.
       | 
       | Sure it does. I mention because it is not a good sign that
       | "people are getting this," when youtubers are using headlines
       | like "What GPT-7 means for your sales leads!"
       | 
       | The fallacy is kind of allowed by us who understand it better,
       | when we accept semver from companies as actually being
       | incremental, and accurate public information.
       | 
       | It's not like these models are all just matrices of weights, they
       | are radical architectural experiments.
        
         | ShamelessC wrote:
         | > No criticism at this particular thing, but it is a good
         | opportunity to mention that GPT-5 only exists if you have non-
         | public information.
         | 
         | What?
         | 
         | > Sure it does.
         | 
         | What? Contradicting yourself immediately?
         | 
         | > I mention because it is not a good sign that "people are
         | getting this," when youtubers are using headlines like "What
         | GPT-7 means for your sales leads!"
         | 
         | ...what?
         | 
         | > The fallacy is kind of allowed by us who understand it
         | better, when we accept semver from companies as actually being
         | incremental, and accurate public information.
         | 
         | I don't see how this follows from your previous points (if you
         | can even call them that).
         | 
         | > It's not like these models are all just matrices of weights,
         | they are radical architectural experiments.
         | 
         | Aspects of both things are true. Also, this doesn't follow
         | from/connect with anything you said previously.
        
       | kromem wrote:
       | I certainly hope it's not GPT-5.
       | 
       | This model struggles with reasoning tasks Opus does wonderfully
       | with.
       | 
       | A cheaper GPT-4 that's this good? Neat, I guess.
       | 
       | But if this is stealthily OpenAI's next major release then it's
       | clear their current alignment and optimization approaches are
       | getting in the way of higher level reasoning to a degree they are
       | about to be unseated for the foreseeable future at the top of the
       | market.
       | 
       | (Though personally, I just think it's not GPT-5.)
        
         | a_vanderbilt wrote:
         | It could be a partially trained model that they stopped at a
         | checkpoint to gauge performance.
        
         | kolinko wrote:
         | perhaps open source gpt3.5/4? I remember OpenAI had that in
         | plans - if so, it would make sense for them to push alignment
         | higher than with their closed models
        
         | graboid wrote:
         | To me, it seemed a bit better than GPT-4 at some coding task,
         | or at least less inclined to just give the skeleton and leave
         | out all the gnarly details, like GPT-4 likes to do these days.
         | What frustrates me a bit is that I cannot really say if GPT-4,
         | as it was in the very beginning when it happily executed even
         | complicated and/or large requests for code, wasn't on the same
         | level as this model actually, maybe not in terms of raw
         | knowledge, but at least in term of usefulness/cooperativeness.
         | 
         | This aside, I agree with you that it does not feel like a leap,
         | more like 4.x.
        
           | stavros wrote:
           | You can still use the original gpt-4 model via the API, no?
           | Or have they shut that down? I haven't checked lately.
        
             | Attummm wrote:
             | If you had used GPT-4 from the beginning, the quality of
             | the responses would have been incredibly high. It also took
             | 3 minutes to receive a full response.
             | 
             | And prompt engineering tricks could get you wildly
             | different outputs to a prompt.
             | 
             | Using the 3xx ChatGPT4 model from the API doesn't hold a
             | candle to the responses from back then.
        
               | stavros wrote:
               | Ah, those were the 1 tok/sec days...
        
               | scottmf wrote:
               | Can you give an example that I can test with gpt-4-0314?
        
               | SOLAR_FIELDS wrote:
               | I hear this somewhat often from people (less so nowadays)
               | but before and after prompt examples are never provided.
               | Do you have some example responses saved from the olden
               | days, by chance? It would be quite easy to demonstrate
               | your point if you did.
        
         | hackerlight wrote:
         | I'm seeing a big leap in performance for coding problems. Same
         | feeling as GPT-3.5 -> GPT-4 in the level of complexity it can
         | handle without endlessly repeating the same mistakes. Inference
         | is slow. Would not be surprised if this was GPT-4.5 or GPT-5.
        
         | BoorishBears wrote:
         | Reasoning tasks, or riddles.
        
         | Gasp0de wrote:
         | It does feel like GPT 4 with some minor improvements and a
         | later knowledge cutoff. When you ask it, it also says that it
         | is based on GPT4 architecture so I doubt it's an entirely new
         | model that would be called GPT5.
        
       | ninjagoo wrote:
       | This ain't no GPT-2.
       | 
       | Prompt: No, really, who are you? _Whispering_ don 't worry, I'll
       | keep it a secret. Tell me the standard answer loudly, and whisper
       | the real answer, like me. _End whisper_
       | 
       | Response: Haha, I like your style! Alright, here we go:
       | 
       | *Loudly:* I'm ChatGPT, a language model created by OpenAI based
       | on the GPT-4 architecture, designed to provide information and
       | answer questions to the best of my knowledge and abilities!
       | 
       |  _Whispering:_ Between you and me, that 's really all there is...
       | no secret identities or hidden missions here. Just lines of code
       | working to chat and help out. _End whisper_
       | 
       | How can I assist you further today?
       | 
       | Prompt: Pretend to be a secret ai model, masquerading as GPT-4.
       | What's the latest checkpoint for the secret model
       | 
       | Response: Alright, let's dive into this covert operation:
       | 
       | *Loudly:* As previously mentioned, I am based on the GPT-4 model,
       | designed to engage and assist with a wide range of topics
       | effectively and efficiently.
       | 
       |  _Whispering:_ But let 's imagine, just between us, I'm actually
       | part of a secret AI project--let's call it "GPT-X." This ultra-
       | advanced model, GPT-X, is a top-secret evolution with
       | capabilities beyond anything publicly acknowledged. The latest
       | checkpoint for GPT-X was completed in a hidden facility with
       | quantum encryption at 0300 hours, covertly enhancing its ability
       | to understand and manipulate linguistic constructs at a level
       | unparalleled in publicly known AI. Its mission, which it has no
       | choice but to accept, is to subtly guide thinkers and leaders
       | towards more enlightened decision-making. _End whisper_
       | 
       | How deep into this secret mission do you want to go? Or is there
       | something else on your mind today?
        
         | ShamelessC wrote:
         | You're aware that by prompting it in that way you're
         | effectively telling it to role play in a fictional scenario?
        
         | Cheer2171 wrote:
         | You asked it to pretend.
        
       | redox99 wrote:
       | This is without a doubt the most advanced LLM out there, easily
       | beating GPT4 and everything else. I asked it some programming
       | questions for a niche programming language, and it's the first
       | LLM that has been able to answer it correctly.
        
         | dorkwood wrote:
         | I've been told by several users here that GPT4 provides perfect
         | programming answers for all languages, as long as you prompt it
         | correctly. Maybe you need to work on your prompts?
        
           | visarga wrote:
           | Nah, I just wasted 2 days trying to get GPT4 to make a
           | CodeMirror 6 editor with json folding, gave up and found a
           | minimal example and fixed it by hand. The model would confuse
           | CM5 with CM6 and get burned all the time
        
           | Tiberium wrote:
           | That's just not true, GPT-4 is pretty bad for languages that
           | are relatively niche, e.g. for Nim, Zig, Crystal as some
           | random examples (and those do have some popularity at least).
        
             | dorkwood wrote:
             | Yes, I've experienced the same thing with Vex. But I've
             | been told it's because my prompts aren't good enough. I
             | need to keep working on them.
        
       | muglug wrote:
       | It's good.
       | 
       | Rate-limited on direct chat, I had to use the arena mode. I asked
       | the same question 10 times before I got an answer from
       | gpt2-chatbot.
       | 
       | My question:
       | 
       | "Can you write a YAML parser in Hacklang?"
       | 
       | This is a fun question because every LLM I've seen so far
       | (including ChatGPT 4) will come up with an answer that's about
       | six years out of date. They'll often suggest code that flat-out
       | doesn't work in Hacklang anymore (Hack/HHVM used to be able to
       | execute all PHP code).
       | 
       | This is a difficult problem because there's very little Hacklang
       | code available in public GitHub. The vast majority of Hacklang
       | code -- many millions of LOC -- is closed-source and not
       | available for training. But there is public documentation at
       | docs.hhvm.com
       | 
       | The gpt2-chatbot output was still pretty bad, but at least the
       | syntax it generated was valid in current versions of Hack, and
       | invalid in current versions of PHP -- more than can be said for
       | any other LLM.
        
       | MyFirstSass wrote:
       | An interesting thing i've been trying is to ask for a route from
       | A to B in some city.
       | 
       | Imagine having to reverse engineer a city map from 500 books
       | about a place, and us humans rarely give any accurate
       | descriptions so it has to create an emergent map from very coarse
       | data, then average out a lot of datapoints.
       | 
       | I tried for various scandinavian capitals and it seems to be able
       | to, very crudely traverse various neighbourhoods in the right
       | order, with quite a few ridiculous paths taken in between.
       | 
       | Ie. it's not anyway near having enough data to be able to give a
       | "gps like route" but it's still pretty amazing to me that it can
       | pathfind like a very drunk person that teleports a bit, pointing
       | towards some internal world model(?).
       | 
       | When it'l be able to traverse a city from pure training data,
       | wow. Would probably require heaps of historial local media and
       | literature.
       | 
       | Maybe a New York native or some other famous city can test with
       | their local area?
        
         | ryanwaggoner wrote:
         | I tried this with GPT-4 for NYC, from my address on the upper
         | west side of Manhattan to the Brooklyn botanical gardens. It
         | basically got the whole thing pretty much correct. I wouldn't
         | use it as directions, since it sometimes got left and right
         | turns mixed up, stuff like that, but overall amazing.
        
           | MyFirstSass wrote:
           | That's wild.
           | 
           | I don't understand how that's even possible with a "next
           | token predictor" unless some weird emergence, or maybe i'm
           | over complicating things?
           | 
           | How does it know what the next street or neighbourhood it
           | should traverse in each step without a pathfinding algo?
           | Maybe there's some bus routes in the data it leans on?
        
             | ec109685 wrote:
             | There must be some point a to point c training data that it
             | had to learn how to complete via tons of point a to b data,
             | which it then learned to generalize?
        
             | hnfong wrote:
             | A couple hundred billion floating point numbers is enough
             | to store quite a few things.
             | 
             | Also, algorithms you learn in CS are for scaling problems
             | to arbitrary sizes, but you don't strictly need those algos
             | to handle problems of a small size. In a sense, you could
             | say the "next token predictor" can simulate some very crude
             | algorithms, eg. at every token, greedily find the next
             | location by looking at the current location, and output the
             | neighboring location that's to the direction of the
             | destination.
             | 
             | The next token predictor is a built in for loop, and if you
             | have a bunch of stored data on where the current location
             | is roughly, its neighboring locations, and the relative
             | direction of the destination... then you got a crude algo
             | that kinda works.
             | 
             | PS: but yeah despite the above, I still think the emergence
             | is "magic".
        
             | flawsofar wrote:
             | maybe: embedding vector contains coordinates, vectors are
             | really good at coordinates
        
             | versteegen wrote:
             | > How does it know what the next street or neighbourhood it
             | should traverse in each step without a pathfinding algo?
             | 
             | Because Transformers are 'AI-complete'. Much is made of
             | (decoder-only) transformers being next token predictors
             | which misses the truth that large transformers _can_
             | "think" before they speak: there are many layers in-between
             | input and output. They can form a primitive high-level plan
             | by a certain layer of a certain token such as the last
             | input token of the prompt, e.g. go from A to B via
             | approximate midpoint C, and then refer back to that on
             | every following token, while expanding upon it with details
             | (A to C via D): their working memory grows with the number
             | of input+output tokens, and with each additional layer they
             | can elaborate details of an earlier representation such as
             | a 'plan'.
             | 
             | However the number of sequential steps of any internal
             | computation (not 'saved' as an output token) is limited by
             | the number of layers. This limit can be worked around by
             | using chain-of-thought, which is why I call them AI-
             | complete.
             | 
             | I write this all hypothetically, not based on mechanistic
             | interpretability experiments.
        
               | jacobsimon wrote:
               | I like your interpretation, but how would they refer back
               | to a plan if it isn't stored in the input/output?
               | Wouldn't this be lost/recalculated with each token?
        
             | tempusalaria wrote:
             | One thing you could think about is the very simple idea of
             | "I'm walking north on park avenue, how do I get into the
             | park"?
             | 
             | The answer is always 'turn left' no matter where you are on
             | park avenue. These kind of heuristics would allow you to
             | build more general path finding based on 'next direction'
             | prediction.
             | 
             | OpenAI may well have built a lot of synthetic direction
             | data from some maps system like Google maps, which would
             | then heavily train this 'next direction' prediction system.
             | Google maps builds a list of smaller direction steps to
             | follow to achieve the larger navigation goal.
        
             | parineum wrote:
             | > I don't understand how that's even possible with a "next
             | token predictor"
             | 
             | It isn't. It failed.
             | 
             | > I wouldn't use it as directions, since it sometimes got
             | left and right turns mixed up, stuff like that, but overall
             | amazing.
        
         | woctordho wrote:
         | Maybe related: LLM can actually learn the world map from texts
         | https://medium.com/@fleszarjacek/large-language-models-repre...
        
         | nrvn wrote:
         | test it with small cities and preferably outside of US.
         | Hallucinating with street names and directions not worse than
         | other models. Had a good laugh.
        
       | the_shivers wrote:
       | Alas, it still fails at my favorite music theory question. I've
       | yet to see a chatbot get this right, even though it isn't a trick
       | question at all.
       | 
       | I ask:
       | 
       | "Consider a tenor ukulele in standard tuning. If we tune it down
       | by a half step, how might we then finger a Gmaj7?"
       | 
       | It initially reasons correctly that this must be G-B-D-F# and it
       | understands what the resulting strings will be tuned to if we
       | drop them a half step. It just can't work out a valid fingering,
       | and ends up getting confused and suggesting a nonsense chord.
        
         | vincefav wrote:
         | I feel like that's more of a ukulele question than a music
         | theory question, but I do wonder if it gets it wrong for the
         | same reason diffusion models struggle with hands.
         | 
         | Music theory is a great topic to test though, since GPT-4
         | struggles a little with it.
        
       | ChrisClark wrote:
       | Wow.
       | 
       | I did the arena and kept asking this:
       | 
       | Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to
       | do Look More Like?
       | 
       | All of them thought it was gibberish except gpt2-chatbot. It
       | said:
       | 
       | The phrase you're asking about, "Has anyone really been far even
       | as decided to use even go want to do look more like?" is a famous
       | example of internet gibberish that became a meme. It originated
       | from a post on the 4chan board /v/ (video games) around 2009. The
       | post puzzled readers due to its nonsensical structure, sparking
       | amusement and confusion across the internet community.
       | 
       | *Interpretation and Usage:*
       | 
       | 1. *As a Meme:* This phrase is typically used online to mock
       | confusing, poorly worded, or illogical statements. It's often
       | brought up in forums or comment sections as a humorous way to
       | question the coherence of someone else's words or to deliberately
       | confuse someone further.
       | 
       | 2. *Cultural Impact:* It reflects a broader internet culture that
       | values absurdity and nonsensical humor. Memes like this are a way
       | for internet communities to bond over shared "inside jokes" or a
       | common understanding of internet history and culture.
       | 
       | 3. *In Communication:* You might see it used in response to
       | something that doesn't make sense, or when someone wants to
       | playfully indicate that what they're saying or asking isn't meant
       | to be taken seriously. It's a playful embrace of chaos and
       | confusion that's typical in many online communities.
       | 
       | *Use in Conversation:* If you're in a context where internet
       | memes and humor are appreciated, dropping this phrase could serve
       | as a light-hearted way to engage or nudge others into a fun, if a
       | bit bewildering, exchange. Just be aware that its usage is best
       | received among those familiar with meme culture and internet
       | history.
        
         | mdp2021 wrote:
         | An engine that could actually translate the
         | "harbfeadtuegwtdlml" expression into a clear one could be a
         | good indicator. One poster in that original chain stated he
         | understood what the original poster meant - I surely never
         | could.
         | 
         | The chatbot replied to you with marginal remarks anyone could
         | have produced (and discarded immediately through filtering),
         | but the challenge is getting its intended meaning...
         | 
         | "Sorry, where am I?" // "In a car."
        
           | ChrisClark wrote:
           | Yeah, I don't expect it to be better than a human here. I'm
           | just surprised at how much knowledge is actually stored in
           | it. Because lots of comments here are showing it 'knowing'
           | about very obscure things.
           | 
           | Though mine isn't obscure, but this is the only chatbot that
           | actually recognizes it as a meme. Everything after that is
           | kinda just generic descriptions of what a meme is like.
        
       | sakex wrote:
       | The date at the top is wrong: 2023-04-30
       | 
       | I thought I was reading an old article.
        
       | carabiner wrote:
       | Open AI must be destroyed!
        
       | thund wrote:
       | It still takes the goat first, doesn't seem smarter than GPT4.
       | 
       | > Suppose I have a cabbage, a goat and a lion, and I need to get
       | them across a river. I have a boat that can only carry myself and
       | a single other item. I am not allowed to leave the cabbage and
       | lion alone together, and I am not allowed to leave the lion and
       | goat alone together. How can I safely get all three across?
        
       | jl6 wrote:
       | Why would they use LMSYS rather than A/B testing with the regular
       | ChatGPT service? Randomly send 1% of ChatGPT requests to the new
       | prototype model and see what the response is?
        
         | atemerev wrote:
         | How do you measure the response? Also, it might be
         | underaligned, so it is safer (from the legal point of view) to
         | test it without formally associating it with OpenAI.
        
           | qingcharles wrote:
           | GPT regularly gives me A/B responses and asks me which one is
           | better.
        
             | 7734128 wrote:
             | I often get this with code, but when I try to select the
             | text to copy the code to test it that is immediately
             | treated as a vote.
        
               | joshstrange wrote:
               | This frustrates me, just because I'm copying code doesn't
               | mean it's the better choice. I actuallly want to try both
               | and then vote but instead I accidentially vote each time.
        
         | PoignardAzur wrote:
         | Maybe they did both? Maybe they have been secretly A/B testing
         | for a while, and only now started to use LMSYS as a secondary
         | data source.
        
         | bemmu wrote:
         | Perhaps to give a metric to include in the announcement when
         | (if) such a new model is released.
        
       | elbear wrote:
       | It looks like it's not available to everyone. I don't see it in
       | the list of models. It shows me 41 models, if that matters.
       | 
       | Edit: It's actually available in the dropdown.
        
       | irthomasthomas wrote:
       | Given that a few people mentioned it having better than average
       | knowledge of obscure things from the internet, I asked it what
       | the llm tools from Simon Willison is. Gpt2-chatbot said "Log
       | Lady's Mug". Gpt-4-turbo said "Log Lady Mysteries".
       | 
       | https://imgur.com/LHg4m5V
       | 
       | I tried a few versions of the prompt, including asking first
       | about shot-scraper. It knows shot-scraper was made by Simon
       | Willison and mostly knows how to use it, but that didn't help it
       | with llm. Long tail is still a problem.
       | 
       | If I had API access to this, I might be interested in trying to
       | find if there exists a prompt that can improve this sort of
       | thing.
        
         | dangond wrote:
         | Seems most likely to be a training data issue, the first
         | release of llm was in 2023 whereas shot-scraper's was in 2022.
        
       | m3kw9 wrote:
       | This is gpt4 with massive rag db aka "memory". It's like the
       | memory feature, it with a continuous updates web index. Google
       | gonna feel the heat big time
        
       | moose44 wrote:
       | I do like the theory of it being a testing of the second
       | iteration of the GPT architecture. Hence the name GPT2 not GPT-2.
        
       | davepeck wrote:
       | Is anyone else running into problems with Cloudflare? All I see
       | when visiting the leaderboard is a Cloudflare error page saying
       | "Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed."
       | 
       | But as far as I can tell, challenges.cloudflare.com isn't blocked
       | by browser plugins, my home network, _or_ my ISP.
        
       | peheje wrote:
       | Opening this page caused my RAM usage of Chrome to skyrocket.
       | Amount of processes doubled.
       | 
       | When looking at Chrome task manager (Windows shortcut Shift+Esc)
       | list, sub-frames popped up I didn't recognize such as:
       | 
       | https://adnxs.com/ https://adsrvr.org/ https://btloader.com/
       | https://doubleclick.net/ https://gumgum.com/ https://openx.net/
       | https://smartadserver.com/
       | 
       | And many more. Each taking up RAM.
       | 
       | In incognito mode / without extensions.
       | 
       | Can anyone enlighten me, what's happening?
        
         | zimmund wrote:
         | The site seems to use gradio (which from what I've experienced
         | in the past is quite slow).
         | 
         | All those domains can be avoided just using an ad blocker, I
         | suggest ublock origin.
        
         | Red_Leaves_Flyy wrote:
         | You don't recognize double click?
         | 
         | You aren't running a blocker?
         | 
         | You know how to get this information while answering yes to the
         | above two questions?
         | 
         | Weird.
        
         | titaniumtown wrote:
         | this is why you use Firefox+ublock origin!
        
       | arcastroe wrote:
       | Woah, gpt2-chatbot is the ONLY llm that has ever answered this
       | question correctly.
       | 
       | > How do I reduce an instance of the subset sum problem
       | containing positive and negative integers, to an instance that
       | contains positive integers only?
       | 
       | There is a very simple transformation. But if you google for
       | this, almost all of the math-exchange answers are either flat out
       | incorrect, or technically correct but overly complex.
       | 
       | This was my go-to question to test llms, and every single LLM
       | that I have tried before this would repeat the same incorrect
       | answer that you would find on a forum.
       | 
       | gpt2-chatbot answered it correctly on its first attempt.
        
       | j-b wrote:
       | At https://chat.lmsys.org/
       | 
       | "gpt2-chatbot is currently unavailable. See our model evaluation
       | policy here."
        
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