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by GuB-42 982 days ago
It is what they talk about during announcements because people like numbers. It looks more serious than "hey look, GPT-4 smart" with some example quotes that anyone knows are cherry picked. But the real hype comes from people trying for themselves.

I seriously don't remember hearing these test results being mentioned in any casual conversation, and I heard a lot of casual conversations about AI. The majority of these center around personal experiences ("I asked ChatGPT this and I got that..."), homework is another common topic. When we compare systems, we won't say "this one got a 72 and the other got a 94", but more like "I asked new system to give me a specific piece of code (or cocktail recipe, or anything) and the result is much better". Again, personal experience and anecdotes before scores.

Maybe people in the field hype themselves with score, but not the general public, and probably not the investors either, who will most likely look at the financial performance of the likes of OpenAI instead.