alextheparrot
Joined 10 years ago
Joined 10 years ago
From the system card someone linked elsewhere in the discussion
I don’t think we should assume answering a test would be easy for a Scantron machine just because it is very good at grading them, either.
If they can’t write an evaluation for the discriminator I agree. All the input data issues you highlight also apply to generators.
Fundamentally I’m not disagreeing with the article, but also think most people who care take the above approach because if you do care you read samples, find the issues, and patch them to hill climb better
Discriminating good answers is easier than generating them. Good evaluations write test sets for the discriminators to show when this is or isn’t true. Evaluating the outputs as the user might see them are more representative than having your generator do multiple tasks (e.g. solve a math query and format the output as a multiple choice answer).
Also, human labels are good but have problems of their own, it isn’t like by using a “different intelligence architecture” we elide all the possible errors. Good instructions to the evaluation model often translate directly to better human results, showing a correlation between these two sources of sampling intelligence.