BirthdayFacts
o1-mini 24% Only in system cards
Models are asked for people's birthdays. Scored on how often they give a wrong birthday.
In-house OpenAI hallucination evaluation.
Made by OpenAI Released Sep 2024 Hallucination rates Tasks kept private Last in a system card Sep 2024
Last model added Sep 2024
- Level
- Everyday Most adults, without training
- Scored
- Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
- Answers
- Short answer A number, word or short string matched to a key.
2
Models scored in lab cards
2
System cards report it, from 1 lab
o1-mini leads with 24%
Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.
- 1 o1-mini 24%
- 2 o1-preview 32%
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | o1-mini | 24% | Sep 2024 | Model card | |
| 2 | o1-preview | 32% | Sep 2024 | Model card |
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Reported by the lab in its model card
Best so far
Labs report it only in system cards
We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.
2 system cards report it, from 1 lab
Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Sep 2024 | o1-preview system card | 32 | BirthdayFacts, hallucination rate, lower is better (Table 2) | Hallucination |
| 12 Sep 2024 | o1-mini system card | 24 | BirthdayFacts, hallucination rate, lower is better (Table 2) | Hallucination |
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