[kraemahz]

Between the release of GPT-3 and GPT-3.5 there was Gopher, which raised the bar on TruthfulQA from essentially random (22.6%) in GPT-3's case to 45% for Gopher. GopherCite then brought the performance up to 80-90%. One has to assume that OpenAI is using state of the art techniques in their new model releases. That the LLMs went from choosing answers randomly to producing accurate results on a great deal of questions (they still suck at math) is missed for anyone who is not aware of the historical context that shorthanding 3.5 to 3 causes.