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by seizethecheese 12 days ago
Kimi doesn't do well on my "ask a trivia question that other AIs get wrong" test.

The question it came up with, "which U.S. state is closest to Africa?" is a pretty standard trivia question without any reason to believe other AIs would get confused. https://pellmell.ai/s/dccdeca69f929f79bc89317035610049

Even GPT-OSS-120b gets this right: https://pellmell.ai/s/1a43dfc7a3baa214aa0fa1b95d2c536a

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Are you giving it your API for these other AIs to evaluate their responses? This 'test' seems perverse.
I don't understand the question.

The other AIs don't see the question until they are asked to react.

Sorry, I should have said 'API key'. What I mean is, why do you consider it a reasonable test for an AI to guess what others AIs don't know?
These types of tests are kind of moot as agentic harnesses are taking over.

IMHO an Ai is the llm plus it's harness.

A good harness would allow the llm to investigate on a map.

Just like the llm can use a python script to figure out how many r's there are in strawberry.

These tests are simply not that predictable of performance of the llm.

The test here is not how close the state is to Africa, the test is coming up with a question that is hard for other AIs to answer.
I don't see how that invalidates their point.

Besides, n=1 benchmark seems like more of a coin toss.