Benchmark Almanac

Preference on ChatGPT and API prompts

GPT-4 Mar 2023 70.2% Only in system cards

Human labelers compare model responses to 5,214 prompts sent to ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. Scored as win rate against a baseline model.

In-house OpenAI evaluation. The baseline model changes between reports.

Made by OpenAI Released Mar 2023 Overall chat quality Tasks kept private Last in a system card Mar 2023 Last model added Mar 2023
Level
Everyday Most adults, without training
Scored
Ranked by votes People pick the better of two answers, as in an arena, and the votes are turned into ratings.
Answers
Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
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Model scored in lab cards
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System card reports it, from 1 lab

GPT-4 leads with 70.2%

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. 1 GPT-4 Mar 2023 70.2%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 GPT-4 Mar 2023 70.2% Mar 2023 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
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2023 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-4 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2023 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-4

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.

One system card reports it

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.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
14 Mar 2023 GPT-4 technical report 70.2 Responses preferred over GPT-3.5 on 5,214 ChatGPT and API prompts (4); 61.1% vs GPT-3.5 Turbo RLHF (System Card Figure 11) Capabilities

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