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Re: Claude 3 model family

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“Claude 3 gets ~60% accuracy on GPQA. It's hard for me to understate how hard these questions are—literal PhDs (in different domains from the questions) [spending over 30 minutes] with access to the internet get 34%. PhDs in the same domain (also with internet access!) get 65% - 75% accuracy.” — David Rein, first author of the GPQA Benchmark. I added text in […] based on the benchmark paper’s abstract. https://twitte…

What's to say this isn't just a demonstration of memorization capabilities? For example, rephrasing the logic of the question or even just simple randomizing the order of the multiple choice answers to these questions often dramatically impacts performance. For example, every model in the Claude 3 family repeats the memorized solution to the lion, goat, wolf riddle regardless of how I modify the riddle.

If the answers were Googleable, presumably smart humans with Internet access wouldn't do barely better than chance?

Re: Claude 3 model family

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post #272

Opus just crushed Gemini Pro and GPT4 on a pretty complex question I have asked all of them, including Claude 2. It involved taking a 43 page life insurance investment pdf and identifying various figures in it. No other model has gotten close. Except for Claude 3 sonnet, which just missed one question.

I am curious on this. can you share more?

Re: Claude 3 model family

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> It's really not the model, it's the data and scaling. Otherwise the success of different architectures like Mamba would be hard to justify. My take is that prediction, however you do it, is the essence of intelligence. In fact, I'd define intelligence as the degree of ability to correctly predict future outcomes based on prior experience. The ultimate intelligent architecture, for now, is our own cortex, which can…

If you invented the transformer but didn't have trillions of tokens to train it with, no chatGPT. But if you had Mamba/RWKV/SSSM and trillions of tokens you would have almost the same thing with chatGPT. The training set is magical. It took humanity a long time to discover all the nifty ideas we have in it. It's the result of many generations of humans working together, using language to share their experience. Intel…

I agree about language - which might be though of as "thought macros". Human experience has taught us what things (objects, actions, etc) are worth labelling, what thought patterns are useful to reason about them, etc. Being able to reason about things in the realm of, and using the patterns of, human language is tremendously powerful.

Are there any Mamba benchmarks that show it matching transformer (GPT, say) benchmark performance for similiar size models and training sets?

Re: Claude 3 model family

#334

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Claude 3 gets ~60% accuracy on GPQA. It's hard for me to understate how hard these questions are—literal PhDs (in different domains from the questions) [spending over 30 minutes] with access to the internet get 34%. PhDs in the same domain (also with internet access!) get 65% - 75% accuracy.” — David Rein, first author of the GPQA Benchmark. I added text in […] based on the benchmark paper’s abstract. https://twitte…

What's to say this isn't just a demonstration of memorization capabilities? For example, rephrasing the logic of the question or even just simple randomizing the order of the multiple choice answers to these questions often dramatically impacts performance. For example, every model in the Claude 3 family repeats the memorized solution to the lion, goat, wolf riddle regardless of how I modify the riddle.

GPT-4 used to have the same issue with this puzzle early on but they've fixed since then (the fix was like mid 2023).

Re: Claude 3 model family

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post #189

I just released a plugin for my LLM command-line tool that adds support for the new Claude 3 models: pipx install llm llm install llm-claude-3 llm keys set claude # paste Anthropic API key here llm -m claude-3-opus '3 fun facts about pelicans' llm -m claude-3-opus '3 surprising facts about walruses' Code here: https://github.com/simonw/llm-claude-3 More on LLM: https://llm.datasette.io/

Updated my Hacker News summary script to use Claude 3 Opus, first described here: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/claude-hacker-news-themes

    #!/bin/bash
    # Validate that the argument is an integer
    if [[ ! $1 =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
      echo "Please provide a valid integer as the argument."
      exit 1
    fi
    # Make API call, parse and summarize the discussion
    curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/$1" | \
      jq -r 'recurse(.children[]) | .author + ": " + .text' | \
      llm -m claude-3-opus -s 'Summarize the themes of the opinions expressed here.
      For each theme, output a markdown header.
      Include direct "quotations" (with author attribution) where appropriate.
      You MUST quote directly from users when crediting them, with double quotes.
      Fix HTML entities. Output markdown. Go long.'

Here's the result of running that against this 300+ comment thread:

    ./hn-summary.sh 39590666
Response: https://gist.github.com/simonw/37781de39fb5555f39b4157a8ad07...

Re: Claude 3 model family

#336
post #169

Just added Claude 3 to Chat at https://double.bot if anyone wants to try it for coding. Free for now and will push Claude 3 for autocomplete later this afternoon. From my early tests this seems like the first API alternative to GPT4. Huge!

Emacs implementation when? ;)

Just added it to gptel. (No image support though, it's a text-only LLM client.)

Re: Claude 3 model family

#337

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There's nothing arbitrary about it and both being located in North Africa means nothing. Tunisia has somewhat strict personal data protection laws and Algeria doesn't. That's the difference.

I know both countries, and in Algeria the Law No. 18-07, effective since August 10, 2023, establishes personal data protection requirements with severe penalties. The text is somewhat more strict than Tunisia.

... then it doesn't seem arbitrary at all?

Re: Claude 3 model family

#339
post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Claude 3 gets ~60% accuracy on GPQA. It's hard for me to understate how hard these questions are—literal PhDs (in different domains from the questions) [spending over 30 minutes] with access to the internet get 34%. PhDs in the same domain (also with internet access!) get 65% - 75% accuracy.” — David Rein, first author of the GPQA Benchmark. I added text in […] based on the benchmark paper’s abstract. https://twitte…

This doesn't pass the sniff test for me. Not sure if these models are memorizing the answers or something else, but it's simply not the case that they're as capable as a domain expert (yet.) I do not have a PhD, but in areas I do have expertise, you really don't have to push these models that hard to before they start to break down and emit incomplete or wrong analysis.

Have you tried the Opus model specifically?

Re: Claude 3 model family

#340

The APPS benchmark result of Claude 3 Opus at 70.2% indicates it might be quite useful for coding. The dataset measures the ability to convert problem descriptions to Python code. The average length of a problem is nearly 300 words. Interestingly, no other top models have published results on this benchmark. Claude 3 Model Card: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/de8ba9b01c9ab7cbabf5c33b80b7bb... Table 1: Evaluation resul…

AMC 10, AMC 12 (2023) results in Table 2 suggest Claude 3 Opus is better than the average high school students who participate in these math competitions. These math problems are not straightforward and cannot be solve by simply memorizing formulas. Most of the students are also quite good at math.

The student averages are 64.4 and 61.5 respectively, while Opus 3 scores are 72 and 63.

Probably fewer than 100,000 students take part in AMC 12 out of possibly 3-4 million grade-12 students. Assume just half of the top US students participate, the average score of AMC would represent the top 2-4% of US high school students.

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/de8ba9b01c9ab7cbabf5c33b80b7bb...

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