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Testing AI's Language Comprehension Limits Revealed

LLMs perform at chance accuracy & show inconsistencies in answers, lacking human-like understanding of language, challenging their claimed human-level compositional abilities.

This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Testing AI on language comprehension tasks reveals insensitivity to underlying meaning. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should subscribe to the AImodels.fyi newsletter or follow me on Twitter.

  
  
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Researchers tested 7 state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) on a novel benchmark to assess their linguistic capabilities compared to humans
LLMs performed at chance accuracy and showed significant inconsistencies in their answers, suggesting they lack human-like understanding of language
The findings chal...