mlmonkey reports massive performance drop week 1 to week 8
2 Sep 21 12:50 PM · 4d ago · 1 comment · 1 source · development 2 of 6
A heavy user of frontier models describes a dramatic performance decline from week 1 to week 8 after launch, with the model transitioning from capable research assistant to eager but less capable tool.
“the drop in performance from, say, week 1 to week 8 is often massive”
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Anecdotally, I have found the same. I spend a lot of time with these frontier models, brainstorming, etc. and the drop in performance from, say, week 1 to week 8 is often massive. Whereas in the beginning, it seemed like a capable research assistant, by the end of week 8 or so it starts acting like a puppy dog eager to make its 'master' happy for…
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