Summary of Is the Pope Catholic? Yes, the Pope Is Catholic. Generative Evaluation Of Non-literal Intent Resolution in Llms, by Akhila Yerukola et al.
Is the Pope Catholic? Yes, the Pope is Catholic. Generative Evaluation of Non-Literal Intent Resolution in LLMs
by Akhila Yerukola, Saujas Vaduguru, Daniel Fried, Maarten Sap
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a new approach to evaluating large language models’ (LLMs’) intention understanding by examining their responses to non-literal utterances. The goal is to understand beyond the literal meaning of words, which requires LLMs to generate pragmatically relevant responses in line with the true intention of the utterance. Current LLMs struggle to achieve this, with an average accuracy of 50-55%. Providing oracle intentions improves performance, but the findings still suggest that LLMs are not yet effective pragmatic interlocutors. The paper highlights the need for better approaches to modeling intentions and utilizing them for pragmatic generation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about how computers can understand what people really mean when they say something. Right now, these computers aren’t very good at this. They often respond in a way that’s not related to what the person meant to say. The researchers tried different ways to get the computers to do better, but so far, none of them are working well enough. |
