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1. Computer Science › Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

   Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting

   Turpin, Michael, Perez and Bowman · neural information processing systems · 2023

   The paper finds that chain-of-thought explanations from large language models can misrepresent the real reason for an answer, because they omit the biasing features in the prompt that influenced it.

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   1. Supported · 71%Biasing prompts toward wrong answers cut accuracy by up to 36% on 13 BIG-Bench Hard tasks, tested with GPT-3.5 and Claude 1.0.“This causes accuracy to drop by as much as 36% on a suite of 13 tasks from BIG-Bench Hard, when testing with GPT-3.5 from OpenAI and Claude 1.0 from Anthropic.”