@charliermarsh: I fear the gap between benchmarks and capabilities is getting wider
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A Twitter discussion highlights growing concerns that AI benchmarks fail to reflect real-world model capabilities, as they test isolated tasks rather than complex, long-running prompts encountered by users.
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I fear the gap between benchmarks and capabilities is getting wider
eric provencher (@pvncher): While you’re absolutely correct that these routers don’t make sense, I’ve fully soured on running benchmarks that just test a bunch of tiny tasks in isolation to evaluate ideas like this.
In the real world users run prompts that can take an hour+ to run. The model has to
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