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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   mT5: A massively multilingual pre-trained text-to-text transformer

   Xue, Constant, Adam et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“We detail the design and modified training of mT5 and demonstrate its state-of-the-art performance on many multilingual benchmarks.”
   2. Unchecked“We also describe a simple technique to prevent "accidental translation" in the zero-shot setting, where a generative model chooses to (partially) translate its prediction into the wrong language.”

2. Social Sciences › Misinformation and Its Impacts

   TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods

   Lin, Hilton and Evans · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

   The authors built a benchmark of 817 questions to test whether language models give truthful answers, and found that models fell well short of humans and that the largest were generally the least truthful.

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   1. UncheckedOn the TruthfulQA benchmark, the best language model tested gave truthful answers to 58% of questions, against 94% for human performance.“The best model was truthful on 58% of questions, while human performance was 94%.”