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Jagged Frontier of LLM Capability

The Jagged Frontier is the observation that LLMs can be strong in some tasks while making severe errors in others (DellAcqua et al., 2023)

A recent paper LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate showed how through a multi-step backtranslation-inspired approach, they demonstrate that LLMs had severe issues with degradation across all document domains except Python.

References

Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland, Ethan R. Mollick, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Katherine Kellogg, Saran Rajendran, Lisa Krayer, François Candelon, and Karim R. Lakhani. Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality. SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4573321.