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Sure, a benchmark doesn't capture all the subtleties and different use cases, but it does give a general idea of the capabilities of a model. Obviously, you have to run the model and see if it does what you need. But the chart isn't really about the nuance, it's showing how drastically the efficiency of the models has improved in just a year. The fact that we can even reasonably compare a model you can run on a desktop to one that needed a data center just a year ago is phenomenal.
i see what your saying. i didnt mean to discredit standard benchmarks entirely.
i guess its obvious that it measures capability regardless of imprecision.
2 major proposed changes:
**first, i dont really know. aside from saying "benchmark your own prompt+usecase"
a proposed plan:
Honestly, I think the most reasonable approach is just to see what other people's experience is like and which models are well regarded, then try them out and see which one is the best fit for what you're doing. You might not even need the top performing one necessarily, and speed or lower resource usage might be a bigger factor.