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

In this final part, we're going to talk about what we do with our model evaluation. So in part one, we talked about sort of synthetic uh the public benchmarks that people use to evaluate generative AI models. In part two, we talked about developing your own benchmark using your own data and reverse engineering prompts that result in your data. And then part three, we ran the benchmarks. We ran uh those prompts to see which models came up with the best outcomes and used generative AI to do some scoring with that, and we talked about how to choose that and then different ways you could do those tests.

In this part, part four, we got to make a decision. So let's take a look at our contestants and see how things netted out from the last time. Uh we did our bake-off, and we found that of the three uh cutting edge models that were just released for our tests. The NDA uh thoroughness, how many pieces the NDA got right, uh, the egg recipe, the SEO report, and fan fiction uh generation. The winning winning model was GPT 4.5 with the 391 uh total score.

We're just behind it was Claude at 385, and then pretty significantly behind it was Grok 3 at 358. What's interesting is that you can also see three of the five tests, Claude won, two of the five uh GPT 4.5 won. However, um GPT 4.5 scored more points because Claude really hosed to the fan fiction. Uh that was, I I think if Claude had scored better on the fanfiction, it would it would have um beaten uh GPT 4.5. And I would say those two models are very, very close.

So now what? We've got our test results, we've got our benchmark results. What do we do with this? Well, if you're talking about making big changes in your technology and your AI technology stack, you have to say, okay, well, how big is the difference? And how and which use cases of these benchmarks matters the most to us?

So if I were to look at these use cases, the NDA and contracts and stuff, that's pretty important. I I that's something that we do a lot at work. The SEO report, that's something we do a lot at work. The egg recipe, we don't really do that much at work. I threw that in because it's a fun example, but we don't really do that at work.

And writing fan fiction, we definitely don't do that work. Um in this case, for the work that my company, Trust Insights, does Claude is the winner, even though it didn't score the highest score on the tasks that are the most important to us, it scored the best. If you are writing fan fiction, you don't really care about NDAs or egg recipes or SEO. So GBT 4.5 would be the model that you would choose based on this evaluation. That's how you do this.

That's that's what you do with this information. You say, I'm I know the categories that are most important to me, and you could add in the public benchmarks as well if you wanted to add in GPQA uh or uh Psycoder or whatever the thing is, especially if those tests are tests that are more rigorous that you don't have the time to do. So, like we do a lot of code writing, and so I might want to include some of the coding benchmarks as well. Once you've got that, then you make a decision and you say, All right, we know that for these evaluation cases, this is the tw technology that does the best for what we need. Let's go ahead and standardize on that.

And then you have to come up with a a testing interval. How often should you retest? Well, the answer is how often are you're going to make changes in the technology. How often you're going to re-evaluate those contracts or the services that you buy. You can't and you should not be switching tools in production every time a new model comes out.

Every time a new shiny object comes out, you don't want to say, oh, well, now we have to use this one. You should put it through your evaluations. Particularly if you use the more sophisticated evaluation where you have the known good outcome and you have benchmarks against that, how closely something comes up against that benchmark, that's a good thing to do. And so it kind of soothes that itch of saying, Am I missing out? Well, if you have your benchmark tests, when a new thing, a new shiny object comes out, you run it against the benchmark tests and you say, Well, you know what?

It's not that big of a difference. GPT 4.5 just came out like two days after Claude 3.7. The scores are so close and are not different enough to say, yeah, we, you know, there's no reason to switch. Claude is perfectly fine. It won on the benchmark tests we care about the most.

We're fine staying where we are. Grok 3 came out. Um it didn't score well on any of the benchmarks. So even though it's owners and stuff are saying it's the most advanced AM model, no, not for these benchmarks, it's not. Um, and that's that's where you want to go with this.

You want to say, what are the benchmarks that matter to me? If you're an educator, being able to create lesson plans uh or score in grade exams. None of the public benchmarks do that. But you would absolutely want to do those those evaluations for yourself and then say, yeah, this is the technology that works best for the use cases we care about. When you're about to spend 50 grand or 100 grand on an enterprise contract, you absolutely want to do this testing and be really robust about it.

Come up with it. We used one example in each of these four use cases. You might have five or ten or twenty benchmark pieces because you you want to know you're about to spend a hundred thousand dollars on something that's going to fit your needs. And so your testing suite would have many of those examples. And shameless plug, my company, Trust Insights does this evaluation.

We will help you build your benchmark suite and run the tests and use all the best practices so that you can be confident in your decision that you've tested generative AI for your specific use cases. But that's the process. That's how you do it. It is time intensive to build the benchmarks. But the good news is that the benchmarks themselves don't change, right?

And the prompts for those benchmarks don't change all that often. The models may change, but the testing, the benchmarks by definition, should not change very often, if at all, so that you're always doing apples to apples with current models and from tests in the past. I hope you found this four-part series helpful on how do we evaluate generative AI models, how do we know what technology to choose. Again, if you have comments or questions, let them let them loose in the comments below or hit reply, and I will talk to you on the next one. Take care.

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