{"id":216532,"date":"2025-06-24T13:22:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/can-we-fix-ais-evaluation-crisis"},"modified":"2025-06-24T13:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:22:54","slug":"can-we-fix-ais-evaluation-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/can-we-fix-ais-evaluation-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Can we fix AI\u2019s evaluation crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-we-fix-ais-evaluation-crisis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is something that I often wonder about, because a model\u2019s hardcore reasoning ability doesn\u2019t necessarily translate into a fun, informative, and creative experience. Most queries from average users are probably not going to be rocket science. There isn\u2019t much research yet on how to effectively evaluate a model\u2019s creativity, but I\u2019d love to know which model would be the best for creative writing or art projects.<\/p>\n<p>Human preference testing has also emerged as an alternative to benchmarks. One increasingly popular platform is LMarena, which lets users submit questions and compare responses from different models side by side\u2014and then pick which one they like best. Still, this method has its flaws. Users sometimes reward the answer that sounds more flattering or agreeable, even if it\u2019s wrong. That can incentivize \u201csweet-talking\u201d models and skew results in favor of pandering.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AI researchers are beginning to realize\u2014and admit\u2014that the status quo of AI testing cannot continue.<\/strong> At the recent CVPR conference, NYU professor Saining Xie drew on historian James Carse\u2019s Finite and Infinite Games to critique the hypercompetitive culture of AI research. An infinite game, he noted, is open-ended\u2014the goal is to keep playing. But in AI, a dominant player often drops a big result, triggering a wave of follow-up papers chasing the same narrow topic. This race-to-publish culture puts enormous pressure on researchers and rewards speed over depth, short-term wins over long-term insight. \u201cIf academia chooses to play a finite game,\u201d he warned, \u201cit will lose everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something that I often wonder about, because a model\u2019s hardcore reasoning ability doesn\u2019t necessarily translate into a fun, informative, and creative experience. Most queries from average users are probably not going to be rocket science. There isn\u2019t much research yet on how to effectively evaluate a model\u2019s creativity, but I\u2019d love to know [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}