Ian and the Limits of Rationality - Issue 107: The Edge - Nautilus
Setting: Chesterfield High, an unusual school in the suburbs of Ohio.The teacher writes on the board:2, 3, 5, 7, ...How, he asks,…
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This is an edited excerpt of a new ML paper (pdf, code) by Stephanie Lin (FHI Oxford), Jacob Hilton (OpenAI) and Owain Evans (FHI Oxford). The paper is under review at NeurIPS. TITLE: TRUTHFULQA: MEASURING HOW MODELS MIMIC HUMAN FALSEHOODS ABSTRACT We propose a benchmark to measure whether a language model is truthful in generating answers to questions. The benchmark comprises 817 questions that span 38 categories, including health, law, finance and politics (see Figure 1). We crafted questio...
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Staying on the path to high performing teams.
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