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Shawn Wang: evaluation

11 Apr 2024 Latent Space Supervise the Process of AI Research — with Jungwon Byun and Andreas Stuhlmüller of Elicit

“Because I just didn't find them reliable because they just hallucinated their own uncertainty.”

— Shawn Wang

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Shawn Wang
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evaluation
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11 Apr 2024
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Latent Space

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…Yeah, to start, it would be the user. One of the other things we do is also kind of flag the model's uncertainty. So we have models report out, how confident are you that this was the sample size of this study? The model's not sure, we throw a flag. And so the user knows to prioritize checking that. So again, we can kind of scale that up. So when the model's like, well, I searched this on Google, I'm not sure if that was the right thing. I have an uncertainty flag, and the user can go and be like, oh, okay, that was actually the right thing to do or not. I've tried to do uncertainty readings from models. I don't know if you have this live. You do? Yeah. Because I just didn't find them reliable because they just hallucinated their own uncertainty. I would love to base it on log probs or something more native within the model rather than generated. But okay, it sounds like they scale properly for you. Yeah. We found it to be pretty calibrated. It varies on the model.…

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