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Played with this a little more and I think the assessment at the end is both the weak link in the UX and a very illustrative debugging tool, not only of LLM lim
by advael 2y ago
Played with this a little more and I think the assessment at the end is both the weak link in the UX and a very illustrative debugging tool, not only of LLM limitations, but oddly, the format of internet debate
I've thrown about a hundred prompts at this, half of them phrased as neutral questions, the other half as statements comprising the position of one side of the debate. I notice that when doing the latter, LLM A always takes the position I state, and LLM B is always said to "win" the debate, and the form of this is usually the same: B claims that there's insufficient substantiating evidence for A's claim. Neither says much substantial about the topic of the prompt after the first exchange. Usually A's first paragraph will expand a little bit on the topic and B will mostly try to discredit the arguments made, then they'll repeat this three or four times while insulting each other's intelligence without bringing up anything new, expanding further on the topic, or notably, trying to use any examples aside from the ones initially discussed in the first reply. What's interesting about the "neutral question" style is that the debate tends to go about the same, but the assessment at the end only considers B to have won about 90% of the time
As someone who studies AI and has gotten into a lot of internet arguments, this is a fascinating example of how LLMs are great at capturing the average case with essentially zero chance of capturing the best-case of the format, in terms of being informative on the topic at hand to a third-party observer