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

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[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 171 points 1 year ago (149 children)

From Re-evaluating GPT-4’s bar exam performance (linked in the article):

First, although GPT-4’s UBE score nears the 90th percentile when examining approximate conversions from February administrations of the Illinois Bar Exam, these estimates are heavily skewed towards repeat test-takers who failed the July administration and score significantly lower than the general test-taking population.

Ohhh, that is sneaky!

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 125 points 1 year ago (146 children)

What I find delightful about this is that I already wasn't impressed! Because, as the paper goes on to say

Moreover, although the UBE is a closed-book exam for humans, GPT-4’s huge training corpus largely distilled in its parameters means that it can effectively take the UBE “open-book”

And here I was thinking it not getting a perfect score on multiple-choice questions was already damning. But apparently it doesn't even get a particularly good score!

[–] ebu@awful.systems 36 points 1 year ago (27 children)

[...W]hen examining only those who passed the exam (i.e. licensed or license-pending attorneys), GPT-4’s performance is estimated to drop to 48th percentile overall, and 15th percentile on essays.

officially Not The Worst™, so clearly AI is going to take over law and governments any day now

also. what the hell is going on in that other reply thread. just a parade of people incorrecting each other going "LLM's don't work like [bad analogy], they work like [even worse analogy]". did we hit too many buzzwords?

[–] genuineparts 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But LLM’s don’t work like Typewriters, they work like Microwaves!

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

oh is that how come I get so much popcorn around these discussions? 🤔 makes sense when you think about it!

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