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GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?

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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.

Are you trying the paid gpt or just free 3.5 chatgpt?

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.

Re: GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

I didn't ask what you do with LLMs, I asked how you see "fastest growing technology of all time".

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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 a…

You’re aware that by prompting it in that way you’re effectively telling it to role play in a fictional scenario?

Re: GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?

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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. (T…

It could be a partially trained model that they stopped at a checkpoint to gauge performance.

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post #173

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 bei…

> 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.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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…

There is a huge class of problems that's extremely difficult to solve but very easy to check.

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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.

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?

Re: GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?

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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 h…

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.

Re: GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?

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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.

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