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Alexandr Wang: Academic AI benchmarks are contaminated and models are overfit.
“The academic benchmarks that are what the industry used to measure the performance of these algorithms are fraught with issues. Many of the models are overfit on these benchmarks. They're sort of in the training data sets of these models.”
Alexandr Wang May 22, 2024 ▶ 24:05 No Priors Ep. 65 | With Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang
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Alexandr Wang: Held-out benchmarks reveal several AI models underperform their reported scores.
“So we, one of the things we did is we published DSM-I-K, which was a held out eval. So we basically produced a new evaluation of the math capabilities of models. That there's no way it would ever exist in the training data set to really see how much of the, ho…”
Alexandr Wang May 22, 2024 ▶ 24:20 No Priors Ep. 65 | With Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang
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Alexandr Wang: Scale built data infrastructure for DoD's first AI program.
“So we built the very first data engines to support government data. This would support mostly geospatial and satellite and over, other overhead imagery. This ended up fueling the first AI program of record for the US DoD.”
Alexandr Wang May 22, 2024 ▶ 5:28 No Priors Ep. 65 | With Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang
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Alexandr Wang: Scale partnered with OpenAI on the first GPT-2 RLHF experiments.
“So we partnered with OpenAI at that time to do the very first experiments on RLHF on top of GPT-II.”
Alexandr Wang May 22, 2024 ▶ 5:57 No Priors Ep. 65 | With Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang
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