CommonsenseQA 2.0
Models answer 14,343 yes or no commonsense questions that players wrote to fool an AI in a game. Scored by accuracy.
In the authors’ words
Constructing benchmarks that test the abilities of modern natural language understanding models is difficult - pre-trained language models exploit artifacts in benchmarks to achieve human parity, but still fail on adversarial examples and make errors that demonstrate a lack of common sense. In this work, we propose gamification as a framework for data construction. The goal of players in the game is to compose questions that mislead a rival AI while using specific phrases for extra points. The game environment leads to enhanced user engagement and simultaneously gives the game designer control over the collected data, allowing us to collect high-quality data at scale. Using our method we create CommonsenseQA 2.0, which includes 14,343 yes/no questions, and demonstrate its difficulty for models that are orders-of-magnitude larger than the AI used in the game itself. Our best baseline, the T5-based Unicorn with 11B parameters achieves an accuracy of 70.2%, substantially higher than GPT-3 (52.9%) in a few-shot inference setup. Both score well below human performance which is at 94.1%.
- 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
- Multiple choice
T5-11B leads with 67.8% among models released by Jul 2023
Best score per model in Epoch AI’s data. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best.
The newest model with a score here came out in Jul 2023, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:
- GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Opus 5.5
- GPT-6.1 Terra
- GPT-6.1 Sol
- and 16 more
- 1
T5-11B 67.8%
- 2
T5-3B 60.2%
- 3 GPT-3.5 Turbo Jun 2023 57%
- 4 T5-Large 54.6%
- 5 InstructGPT 175B 52.9%
- 6
Llama 2-70B 50%
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 67.8% | Oct 2019 | Epoch AI | |
| 2 | | 60.2% | Oct 2019 | Epoch AI | |
| 3 | GPT-3.5 Turbo Jun 2023 | 57% | Jun 2023 | Epoch AI | |
| 4 | T5-Large | 54.6% | Epoch AI | ||
| 5 | InstructGPT 175B | 52.9% | Jan 2022 | Epoch AI | |
| 6 | | 50% | Jul 2023 | Epoch AI |
Number one over time
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
No lab model card reports it yet
We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark.
Versions
We switch the top row to each new version when it comes out. Open it for one row per version. An old version stays in play while people still test it, so whoever first takes it past 85% gets credit for closing it out.
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