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Simon Willison on X: "Playing with a new LLM benchmark: how good are they at drawing an SVG of a pelican on a bicycle? Here's the difference between Claude 3.5 Sonnet new and Claude 3.5 Sonnet previous"

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Playing with a new LLM benchmark: how good are they at drawing an SVG of a pelican on a bicycle? Here's the difference between Claude 3.5 Sonnet new and Claude 3.5 Sonnet previous
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20) - it's clearly a bicycle but the pelican has a pretty small beak
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-10-22)

The pelican here has a better sized beak and is also colored an off-white
4:43 PM · Oct 25, 2024·
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  • @simonw
    Simon Willison
    @simonw
    Playing with a new LLM benchmark: how good are they at drawing an SVG of a pelican on a bicycle? Here's the difference between Claude 3.5 Sonnet new and Claude 3.5 Sonnet previous
    Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20) - it's clearly a bicycle but the pelican has a pretty small beak
    Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-10-22)

The pelican here has a better sized beak and is also colored an off-white
    4:43 PM · Oct 25, 2024·
    684.3K
    Views
    42
  • @simonw
    Simon Willison
    @simonw
    Oct 25, 2024
    Gemini 1.5 Flash 001 armed the pelican for some reason? 002 gave it a barbell
    Gemini 1.5 Flash 001 - this pelican looks a bit more like a rabbit, and appears to be holding a gun or rocket launcher
    Gemini 1.5 Flash 002

This is a sort-of face first portrait of a pelican holding what looks like a barbell
    5
    @simonw
    Simon Willison
    @simonw
    Oct 25, 2024
    GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini
    The bike is bad. The pelican is tubby.
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    @simonw
    Simon Willison
    @simonw
    Oct 25, 2024
    So far my favourite is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
    Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B 001

An enormous yellow sort of weird heart shape thing carrying a big grey stick. It looks nothing like a Pelican OR a bicycle
    3
    @simonw
    Simon Willison
    @simonw
    Oct 25, 2024
    More terrible pelican SVGs and the source code I used to generate them are in this repo:
    pelican-bicycle/README.md at main · simonw/pelican-bicycle
    From github.com
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  • @paul_cal
    Paul Calcraft
    @paul_cal
    Oct 25, 2024
    What if we made them play pictionary together? Then they are each incentivised to make it clear to the rest of the models, and we get numerical evaluation (using image input to the other models). Could get Elo if we really wanted Tbh I might watch this on stream
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