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How to check the steps an AI assistant takes to answer

The author tests ways to check how an AI assistant finds its answers. You will learn why looking at every step matters and how comparing different checking tools can help catch hidden mistakes.

Original by Alex DuffyEvaluation

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“Verification is the bottleneck” by Alex Duffy. Read the original source.

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The author explores how to check the work of an AI assistant. When an assistant gets a task, looking only at the final answer is not enough. A correct result can hide a forbidden shortcut, so people need to review the exact steps and tools the software used.

To review these steps, the author tests an AI tool called Jev. Instead of writing out text, Jev simply chooses from options to grade the assistant's work. Because this tool is fast and cheap, people can use it alongside other AI judges to check every step of a task.

This method is useful for people training AI assistants to follow strict rules. However, when two AI judges agree on a grade, it does not prove they are right. Any disagreements should be sent to a human reader to figure out what the software actually learned.

Key takeaways

  1. Always check the steps and tools an AI assistant uses, not just its final answer.
  2. Jev is an AI tool that chooses from options to grade work instead of writing text.
  3. When two AI judges give the same grade, it does not mean their answer is correct.

These are the author's own results, not an independent test. The comparison reuses older grades from Jev and estimates costs using standard rates.

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