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ArticleNature2024

Larger and more instructable language models become less reliable.

Lexin Zhou, Wout Schellaert, Fernando Martínez-Plumed, Yael Moros-Daval, Cèsar Ferri, José Hernández-Orallo

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Article in Nature, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Lexin ZhouValencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (VRAIN), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1161-4270
Wout SchellaertValencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (VRAIN), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9182-4747
Fernando Martínez-PlumedValencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (VRAIN), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-2902-6477
Yael Moros-DavalValencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (VRAIN), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5442-2055
Cèsar FerriValencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (VRAIN), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8975-1120
José Hernández-OralloValencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (VRAIN), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain. jorallo@upv.es.ORCID 0000-0001-9746-7632

Funding

Generalitat ValencianaOpen PhilanthropySpanish grant
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prevailing methods to make large language models more powerful and amenable have been based on continuous scaling up (that is, increasing their size, data volume and computational resources

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PMCPMC11446866

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