Summary of Llms Achieve Adult Human Performance on Higher-order Theory Of Mind Tasks, by Winnie Street et al.
LLMs achieve adult human performance on higher-order theory of mind tasks
by Winnie Street, John Oliver Siy, Geoff Keeling, Adrien Baranes, Benjamin Barnett, Michael McKibben, Tatenda Kanyere, Alison Lentz, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Robin I. M. Dunbar
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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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 investigates the extent to which large language models (LLMs) have developed higher-order theory of mind (ToM), a human ability to reason about multiple mental and emotional states in a recursive manner. The authors introduce a handwritten test suite, Multi-Order Theory of Mind Q&A, and compare the performance of five LLMs with a newly gathered adult human benchmark. The results show that GPT-4 and Flan-PaLM reach adult-level performance on ToM tasks overall, with GPT-4 exceeding adult performance on 6th-order inferences. The findings suggest an interplay between model size and finetuning for realizing ToM abilities, and the best-performing LLMs have developed a generalized capacity for ToM. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how well big language models can understand what’s going on in someone else’s mind. It’s like trying to figure out what someone is thinking and feeling. The researchers made a special test to see how good the language models are at this, and they compared them to how well regular people do. They found that two of the language models, GPT-4 and Flan-PaLM, are almost as good as humans at understanding what’s going on in someone else’s mind. This is important because it helps us understand how we can use these language models to work with other people. |
Keywords
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