Exploring Benchmarks as Memes: Shaping the Future of AI Education

As we explore the intersection of AI, education, and society, let's dive into the fascinating world of benchmarks as memes, where ideas spread like wildfire and shape the future of our most powerful tools.

1. Alex leads AI training consulting at Every.
2. Focusing on education and AI, particularly benchmarks as a way to educate.
3. Benchmarks are ideas that spread, similar to the concept of memes by Richard Dawkins.
4. Examples of widespread ideas include Christianity, democracy, and capitalism.
5. A meme benchmark can become popular through name recognition or effectiveness in measuring model performance.
6. The example of "humanity's last exam" gained traction despite being more well-known outside AI circles.
7. When Claude was released, people looked at the benchmarks to evaluate its performance.
8. Benchmarks originated from traditional machine learning and were structured like standardized tests.
9. Language models are good at performing on these types of benchmarks, but they may not be ideal for measuring real-world performance.
10. XJDR summarized that Opus didn't look at benchmarks when it was released and no longer cares about them.
11. There is an opportunity for people to shape the future by creating new benchmarks.
12. The life cycle of a benchmark includes someone coming up with an idea, which then gets adopted and spreads until it becomes saturated.
13. A cool benchmark that came out recently involves counting from 1 to 10; currently, models struggle with this task despite significant progress in video generation.
14. Pokémon is another example of a benchmark that has become popular due to its inclusion in AI model evaluations.
15. The GPT-3 benchmark, Superglue, is no longer widely used because language models have become too good at the tasks it measured.
16. New benchmarks should focus on areas where code and math are less relevant, such as ethics, society, and art.
17. Benchmarks can help build trust between humans and AI by defining goals and providing feedback loops for improvement.
18. Trust is essential when building powerful tools like AI, as it encourages more people to use the technology responsibly.
19. The second meme that Claude came up with involved MMLU scores, which are less cool than asking what your mom thinks.
20. Collaboration from researchers worldwide, including Tyler and Sam from Australia and Canada, helped bring this presentation together.

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