Summary of Reasoning and Tools For Human-level Forecasting, by Elvis Hsieh et al.
Reasoning and Tools for Human-Level Forecasting
by Elvis Hsieh, Preston Fu, Jonathan Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Language models trained on massive web datasets excel due to their ability to memorize vast amounts of data, even when only a few examples are present. This skill is often desirable in question-answering tasks but raises questions about whether these models can genuinely reason or merely mimic patterns from the training data. This distinction is crucial in forecasting tasks where answers aren’t present in the training data and the model must logically deduce the answer. Our Reasoning and Tools for Forecasting (RTF) framework, built upon reasoning-and-acting (ReAct) agents, enables dynamic information retrieval and numerical simulation with equipped tools. We evaluate our method using questions from competitive forecasting platforms, demonstrating it can be competitive with and outperform human predictions. This suggests that language models, when provided the right tools, can think and adapt like humans, offering valuable insights for real-world decision-making. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper talks about how some language models are really good at remembering lots of information they learned from the internet. But it also asks if these models are just copying patterns from their training data or if they can actually think and solve problems on their own. The researchers created a new system called Reasoning and Tools for Forecasting that can get updated information and run simulations to make predictions. They tested this system with questions from forecasting competitions and found that it could be as good as or even better than human predictions. This shows that language models, if given the right tools, can think and adapt like humans. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Question answering
