Summary of Semeval-2024 Task 9: Brainteaser: a Novel Task Defying Common Sense, by Yifan Jiang et al.
SemEval-2024 Task 9: BRAINTEASER: A Novel Task Defying Common Sense
by Yifan Jiang, Filip Ilievski, Kaixin Ma
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The recent BRAINTEASER benchmark aims to evaluate current AI models’ lateral thinking ability in a zero-shot setting, which has received little attention. This paper introduces SemEval Task 9: BRAIN-TEASER(S), the first task designed to test systems’ reasoning and lateral thinking ability. The competition receives 483 team submissions from 182 participants, demonstrating the difficulty of this task. This paper provides a fine-grained analysis of the results, reflecting on what it means for AI systems to reason laterally. The BRAINTEASER(S) subtasks and findings can stimulate future work on lateral thinking and robust reasoning by computational models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary BRAINTEASER is a new way to test how well computers can think creatively. Right now, most computer programs are good at solving problems using rules and patterns they’ve learned before. But this benchmark challenges those programs to come up with new ideas that don’t fit what they know. A big competition was held to see how well different AI systems could do this kind of thinking. The results show that it’s still a difficult challenge for computers, but the findings can help us make progress in developing more creative and clever machines. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Zero shot
