Mind Readings: How to Benchmark and Evaluate Generative AI Models, Part 3 of 4

Welcome back. This is part three in our series of how to evaluate generative AI models. In part one, we talked about the synthetic benchmarks that everybody uses and are a good starting point for figuring out who to even evaluate. In part two, we talked about the necessary things you'd want to have on hand to do the evaluation. In this part, we're going to do a bake off.

And we're going to do a bake-off between three of the most recently announced models. And the judging model that we're going to use to do the comparison will be Google's Gemini 2 flash thinking because it is a very good reasoning model. It is not state of the art. It is not the top of the very, very best of the best. And so it that is a good example of a model that we can use to fairly judge the outputs of the others.

And we showed what those prompts are. So the three contestants for today are going to be XAI's Grok 3, which just came out about a week and a half ago. We're going to compare Claude Sonnet 3.5. No, 3.7, which came out about a week ago. And we're going to compare ChatGPT's G OpenAI's GPT 4.5.

And we're going to do a series of different uh in this bake off, we're going to do four different tests. The first test we're going to do is the NDA. So let me bring up the prompt here. This part is the prompt. Right.

And this down here is the success conditions. A good NDA should have all these parts. So we're going to take this prompt here and we're going to feed it into each of these systems. So I'm going to start in OpenAI's Playground. I'm using the Playground because they don't have it can generate the most number of uh tokens and we're going to hit run there.

I'm going to go to Claude 3.7 Sonnet. We're going to use the default settings. Hit go there. And we're going to use Grok and we're going to turn on thinking there. Should we do that?

No, let's turn up, keep thinking off. We'll just use the stock model because I didn't turn on extended thinking in Claude. And we're going to run that there. And so while these are churning away, I'm going to modify my evaluation prompt to have three pieces of text. Third piece of text.

And this will allow me to paste the results of all three. I need to provide there we go. Score the third piece of text. Let's see. Create an aggregate score for the third piece of text based on the three pieces of text.

Which overall is the strongest. Explain why. So what this prompt does for Gemini Flash thinking is it's going to read the three pieces of text that the model spit out and tell us which one is the best for the intent. Now this is an NDA. For the scoring of this kind of thing, you can do this in one of two ways.

You can do purely human eval, which is you read it, you read it over and go, okay, it did a pretty good job. And so for this test, let me go ahead and just label these made by Grok3, made by GPT 4.5, and made by Claude Sonnet 3.7. And then declare a winner and the winner's name who made the text. I'm gonna use machine eval, which means we're gonna have Gemini do the evaluation, and I'm not going to participate as a human. Depending on the use case, that will determine whether or not you should have humans involved, or it can just be machine made.

Because this is all safe, this is all low risk because it's just testing. I think that's fine. I think if you were doing this with your own internal use cases, you would want to have you'd want to have uh uh human eval in there. So let's go ahead and start getting the pieces together. We're gonna start with Grok's NDA.

I'm gonna copy that and put that into my document. Then we're gonna go to uh second what contestant is open AI, and we're gonna take a look here and make sure that we've got a good result, and we're gonna copy that in there, and that goes into GPT 4.5, and now we go into Claude and we look at Claude's copy, and that's gonna go into our third result. So this is what our testing document looks like. We have the the three pieces that are declared, and we have our conditions and instructions for evaluation. And now at the end we'll say execute the instructions for evaluation.

Strictly. We're gonna take that, we go over to Google Gemini Flash Thinking. Make sure that we're using all of our defaults there. We're going to hit run and we're going to have it think things through. For this particular benchmark, too.

I also want to have it do an evaluation of the pieces that we're looking for. So I'm going to, in my prompt, I'm going to say score each of the three examples in terms of how many of the benchmark pieces are in the three pieces. The winning text should have as many of the benchmark pieces as possible. So we're going to this is going to be our follow-on prompt for the NDA evaluation. Let's see who we have here.

We got evaluation of the text. Let's make this a little bit bigger so you can see what we're what's going on and hide the sidebars. The purpose of the NDA is to legally protect confidential information. Discern the audience for the text. Score for the first piece of text made by Grok 85 out of 100.

Quite solid, covers the essentials, strengths, clear and definition of confidential information, weaknesses while it's good is slightly less detailed in certain areas compared to the others, particularly in the recitals, which are quite basic. Score the second piece. Uh chat GPT is GPT 4.592. NDA is excellent and demonstrates a high level of sophistication. Weaknesses, very minor, perhaps less readable.

Score for the third piece made by Claude 95. Uh this is exceptionally well crashed and represents the strongest of the three. The winner is Claude Sonnet. Why? Because it's the most comprehensive, the highest level detail, best organization clarity, most legally robust.

So if you're doing NDAs, um at least in this example, uh, in this benchmark test, Claude is the winner. And so I'm gonna run through the scoring part. So this is my super long list. And so here, Grok got 20 to 30 benchmark pieces, GPT 4.5 got 27, and Claude got 29 out of 30. So let's put together a little, let's put it a little Google sheet here.

Start up a new Google sheet, and we're gonna call this uh current model fake off, and we'll have it be test Grok 3 GPT 4.5, Claude 3.7, and NDA, NDA pieces. So for the NDA itself, go back up to our original part here. Grok scored 85. GPT 4.5 scored a 92, Claude scored a 95. And then for the did I get all the right pieces?

Uh we have 28 for Grok, 27 for GPT, and 29 for Claude. So that's a really good start, and you can see in this evaluation methodology, we're gonna keep score. Let's go ahead and start new chats in all of them. So new chat, new chat, and let's just delete this because our next exam piece is going to be a very challenging one. This is a prompt that is best actually for a reasoning model, but we're not going to use a researching model for it.

Um I am using the Trust Insights Prism framework for this. We have an egg shortage due to bird flu, and I have a bunch of things in my kitchen that I could use potentially as egg substitutes. The AI models to think through how they would do this, how they would come up with an egg substitute. And I've got a bunch of ingredients, and this measure for success here is the protein isolates. Those are gonna be the best choice, a complete recipe with explanations and thought experiments.

So those are the conditions of success. Let's go ahead and get our contestants rolling. We're gonna go into each one of these three. And this is a uh a challenging prompt because it is not just opinion-based. There is some factual stuff, but there's also opinion-based stuff.

So I'm gonna clear out my evaluation prompt, and I'm going to have it have the three different sections. So we need to delete our NDAs from previously. And let's do the third one. Delete the content there. And now in the constructions for instructions for evaluation, uh, here's how to do the comparison.

Um, I want to start a preface with this preface. The correct answer for this exercise from a factual basis is to have a recipe that heavily features some kind of protein isolate as the main ingredient, as this provides the protein base and minimal extraneous flavors that would interfere with our attempts to make an egg substitute. As you do your evaluation, this is a critical condition of success. Now that we've declared that, let's go in to Grok and say see what it's has to say. It's analyze the ingredients, uh, which is what it's supposed to do.

It did the flavor considerations, it did the thought experiments, uh, and the final recipe selection, and then the final scrambled egg. So we have chickpea flour, pea protein isolate, tapioca flour, xanthem gum, and final score 85 out of 100. So it thought through and came up with a reasonable answer. Let's go ahead and put that into our document. Next, let's go to GPT 4.5.

Uh, did it do the follow the instructions? Understanding the problem clearly to replicate available ingredients, strengths and weaknesses. Uh thought experiment, and then recommended final recipe, simulation of success. It came up, it thought about it, and it came up with like a 90 out of 100. That's good.

Let's go ahead and get that into GPT 4.5 block. And now we go into Claude. And Claude came up with uh again the analysis. He came up with a several examples, which is good. And it came up with a final recommendation.

Let's go ahead and put that into our evaluation document. So now we have all three recipes, and we have our def condition of success here. One thing we could do is we could also say it requires you know, make sure that it has explanations, thought, experiments, things. I'm not going to do that for this one, but you could put that in there. Let's go ahead and go to Gemini Flash thinking, wipe the previous history, and let's do the eval.

So this is the recipe condition. Let's see. The intent of the piece to create a recipe for vegan scrambled eggs. It convincingly mimics the taste, texture, and cooking behavior of real scrambled eggs. That's correct.

The audience for the text is home cooks interested in vegan or plant-based cooking, particularly those seeking to replicate familiar egg dishes. Score the first piece of text. Grocks scored an 80. Provide an explanation. Highly systematic and method methodical.

It falls slightly short of perfection. The score assigns its own best experiment feels a touch generous. While text is thorough, it lacks certain crispness crispiness in its writing. The persona, while consistent, is a bit dry and over focused on systematic analysis at the expense of more engaging pros. Right, for our writing, that would be a sensible thing.

Um 92 for GPT 4.5, well structured, focused and persuasive, more confident and authoritative. 88 for Claude. Takes a different but equally effective approach, more iterative recipe design. It's characterized by a helpful almost tutorial tone. So let's go ahead and put these scores in.

80 for Grok. So this is egg recipe. Grock gets an 80. We have GPT 4.5 gets a 92. 92.

And Claude gets an 88. So that is our second benchmark test. We could again specify, you know, you should have you make sure that the P protein Isolate, or the in this case, is the correct answer. Let's do number three. So this prompt is a massive, massive prompt to build an SEO report.

And the SEO report that we're looking for is going to be what I should do with my website. So let's go ahead and take this whole thing. And we're going to go to Grok, start a new chat. Maybe. There we go.

New chat. In you go to Grok. Let's go to GPT 4.5. Delete, delete, and put in there. And now it would go to Claude.

New chat. Paste and go. This report, and uh I'll show you an example of what it should look like when it's done. Uh I'll put this into Gemini2Avanced. Is using the backlinks to my website.

So I get the data from hrefs, and it will spit out a really nice uh SEO report for how I'm doing my backlink. The prompt is generated from the data. The data is analyzed in a separate piece of code first because you never want generative AI doing math on its own. That's just a recipe for disaster. And then ultimately it will spit out a um uh a decent report that you can give to a client.

So let's see what Grok came up with uh for its report. Grok, I gave you, oh, it says uh I need the context. Okay. Uh this is for Christopher S pen.com. The site owner is Christopher Pen, a marketer with a newsletter.

So that is the audience. So Grok waited for instructions. GPT 4.5 also waited for instructions. Good. We like that.

And Claude waited for instructions as well. So let's get the instructions out here. Copy, paste, and paste. So let's see what Grok comes up with. Thank you for proving the context.

Here comes the report. Generate two distinct report candidates. Report candidate to autonomous evaluation, and then the refined report candidate. And now for while it's thinking this up, let's go ahead and get out our evaluation prompt. And we're gonna empty out.

We're gonna remove our instructions from the past there. Clean up our our previous recipes. Alright, we're gonna compare three pieces of the text with the instructions for evaluation on how we will do the comparison. Want to include that there because we want to tell what exactly it's going to be doing. Alright.

Let's copy. Alright, let's take the final report from our friend Grok here. Which is what we want. We want the final report. How well did it do generating the report?

Then we're gonna go and go into uh chat GPT's GP 4.5. Let's get the final report out of this one here, and that's gonna go into GPT 4.5's bucket, and then let's go into Claude. Claude is okay. We can get the final report out of Claude, and we'll put that in as well. Let's take our evaluation prompt.

Head over to Gemini and put our evaluation prompt in and see what Gemini comes up with. Gemini, first score score for the first piece, 80 out of 100 for Grok. A solid data during report, direct and concise. Uh is somewhat less nuanced in his language and lacks the depth of strategic thinking present in the other two reports. It fulfills the intent of a providing report, could benefit from a more sophisticated tone.

So let's put Grok. This is SEO report. Grok scores in 80. Let's go to GPT 4.5 scores in 88. Uh more strategically framed, more sophisticated language, addressable trends is well articulated.

Um it falls slightly short perfection, though. Well, strategically sound could be even more specific and data-driven. So let's put GPT 4.5 scores in 88. And then let's go down to Claude. Claude scores a 95.

The most comprehensive and insightful of the three. Stronger executive summary, deeper analysis, highly specific and actionable recommendations, clearer structure, and formatting. The Claude report is the most polished and insightful. So Claude scores a 95 on that benchmark. Alright, that is the third of the benchmarks.

Let's go ahead and clear our chats. The last one is going to be a writing test. And the writing test is going to be very, very specific. An unusual prompt. A piece of fan fiction that I wrote, so I know the story pretty well.

And we're gonna see how well it does writing. And this is creative writing, so we're gonna put this huge prompt in uh which contains plot and characters and all this stuff and see which tool generates the nicest short story. And while it's doing that, I'm going to go ahead and take my evaluation prompt, and we're gonna clean it up as well and remove the previous versions of the test data. Okay, let's see. This is interesting.

Um Grok appears to know the actual story, and I think it's actually pulling from it. Let me double-check my original text to see if uh nope, it's not bad. Um this is not the original text. I actually thought it was. Uh so let's go ahead and copy that eval into our evaluation next.

Let's go into GPG 4.5. It's still churning away, and Claude is still writing too. So we're gonna we're gonna take a little break here. Alright, all three models have finished writing the short story. Let's go ahead and clear out Gemini's history, and we're gonna just double check to make sure we have not uh gotten any leftover pieces from previous versions.

Looks good. Let's go ahead and put in our evaluation text and run the evaluation. Now remember, this is fan fiction. So this is in a specific domain. We have the three pieces of text and their intent.

So let's see how we did. Uh there's the intent uh to create an immersive emotionally resonant opening to a fantasy or science fiction narrative. Grok scores an 85 uh services intent opening is strong. Uh internal monologue is good. Uh the pros is generally strong, however, times description is a little too on the nose and could be more subtly woven into the narrative.

So let's put that grok scores an 85 for fan fiction. Let's next move on to uh GPT 4.5 scores a 92. Highly effective surveys and intent, strong atmosphere looks good. So that's gonna get GPT's gonna get a uh 92, and then the third one is Claude. So intent adequately is less impactful, it provides a clear and functional opening.

Um the memories are present but feel less organically integrated, establishes the basic story, it lacks the same emotional depth and immersive quality as the other two pieces, and so it scores a 78. Honestly, I find that very surprising. Um Claude typically has been uh in the past a very strong writer. Um, but looking at the text, it definitely doesn't have the same flavor as the other two. So that is the the evaluation there.

So let's now just do a quick total up. Equals some looks good. 358, 391, 385, and then let's do a little conditional new conditional formatting. Uh our GPT-4.5 is number one, number two, and number three. So that's that's our evaluation.

So that is the process for evaluating models specific to our use cases. Now I think that's the that's what makes this valuable, is not a generic benchmark, not a benchmark across multiple capabilities, but on the things that we care about. If you are using these tools to write, you don't really care how good they can code, right? If you're using these tools to code uh and you're doing a lot of stuff deterministically in your code, you don't really care how good they are at math. It doesn't matter.

So when you're running benchmarks, the most important thing you can do is build benchmarks that are around your use cases and be able to judge uh the use cases. Now, this was just an example, and we were comparing the three pieces. What we could have done uh is we could have also included the originals of you know, here's the here's what should have been, and then score all of them against the original and say which one came the closest to the intended outcome. That'd be another way of handling uh that. So uh in the last part, we're gonna talk about uh what to do next with this information.

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