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Shawn Wang: belief

12 Jul 2024 Latent Space Benchmarks 201: Why Leaderboards > Arenas >> LLM-as-Judge

“I'll throw in one more, which is, I think the sample of the chatbot arena data is actually out there.”

— Shawn Wang

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Shawn Wang
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belief
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12 Jul 2024
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Latent Space

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…Yeah, definitely. In these things. But there's also the fact that some like the judgments and the likings that we have in real life do not necessarily have the same impacts as LLMs, which are used in production, right? So you don't want the best LLM, according to everybody, to be the one which is going to be the most psychophantic and then get propaganda chatbots or something. On anything like an Arenas, there can be also the problem of the lack of diversity of the annotators, because most of the users of the chatbot arenas, for example, tend to be, from what I gathered, men from the US. I'm sorry, but this is not a diverse demographic. So those are reasons for which human evaluations, in my opinion, are quite limited. I'll throw in one more, which is, I think the sample of the chatbot arena data is actually out there. And most of them are single turn tests as well. Definitely.…

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