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AI vs. Detective: How Well Can Language Models Solve Murder Mysteries?

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Overview

  • New benchmark dataset called WhoDunIt for testing AI systems on mystery story comprehension
  • Contains 200 carefully curated mystery stories with identified culprits
  • Tests language models' ability to identify perpetrators and follow complex narratives
  • Evaluates both direct culprit detection and reasoning about evidence
  • Performance tested across multiple large language models like GPT-4 and Claude

Plain English Explanation

Mystery story analysis presents a unique challenge for artificial intelligence. Much like how humans piece together clues to solve a mystery, AI systems need to track characters...

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