Beyond Leaderboards LMArena’s Mission to Make AI Reliable
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In this video, a16z general partner Anjney Midha dialogues with LMArena cofounders Anastasios N. Angelopoulos, Wei-Lin Chiang, and Ion Stoica about innovating AI evaluation. They discuss moving beyond traditional benchmarks by allowing millions of users to vote on AI model performance, highlighting the necessity of fresh data for reliability. Key topics include the inadequacy of expert-only benchmarks, the revelation of model capabilities through user preferences, and the importance of real-time testing. Furthermore, they explore the evolution of LMArena from a research initiative to an essential AI tool, and address challenges related to AI reliability and expanding evaluation beyond binary rankings.
Chapters:
00:00:04 - LLM evaluation: From consumer chatbots to mission-critical systems
00:06:04 - Style and substance: Crowdsourcing expertise
00:18:51 - Building immunity to overfitting
00:29:49 - The roots of LMArena
00:41:29 - Proving the value of academic AI research
00:48:28 - Scaling LMArena and starting a company
00:59:59 - Benchmarks and evaluations
01:12:13 - Measuring AI reliability
01:17:57 - Beyond binary rankings
01:28:07 - A leaderboard for each prompt
01:31:28 - The LMArena roadmap
01:34:29 - The importance of openness
01:43:10 - Adapting to AI evolutions