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When Deductive Reasoning Fails: Contextual Ambiguities in AI Models
by Cosmological thinking: time, space and universal causation September 8th, 2024
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Despite its effectiveness, the Natural Program-based deductive reasoning process has limitations, particularly in handling contextual ambiguities. One key failure case involves the term "pennies," where ChatGPT misinterprets it as a unit of currency instead of coins. Such ambiguities reveal challenges in the deductive verification process, limiting its ability to resolve contextual misunderstandings.
Authors:
(1) Zhan Ling, UC San Diego and equal contribution;
(2) Yunhao Fang, UC San Diego and equal contribution;
(3) Xuanlin Li, UC San Diego;
(4) Zhiao Huang, UC San Diego;
(5) Mingu Lee, Qualcomm AI Research and Qualcomm AI Research
(6) Roland Memisevic, Qualcomm AI Research;
(7) Hao Su, UC San Diego.
Table of Links
Motivation and Problem Formulation
Deductively Verifiable Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Conclusion, Acknowledgements and References
A Deductive Verification with Vicuna Models
C More Details on Answer Extraction
E More Deductive Verification Examples
6 Limitations
While we have demonstrated the effectiveness of Natural Program-based deductive reasoning verification to enhance the trustworthiness and interpretability of reasoning steps and final answers, it is
important to acknowledge that our approach has limitations. In this section, we analyze a common source of failure cases to gain deeper insights into the behaviors of our approach. The failure case, as shown in Tab. 8, involves the ambiguous interpretation of the term “pennies,” which can be understood as either a type of coin or a unit of currency depending on the context. The ground truth answer interprets “pennies” as coins, while ChatGPT interprets it as a unit of currency. In this case, our deductive verification process is incapable of finding such misinterpretations. Contextual ambiguities like this are common in real-world scenarios, highlighting the current limitation of our approach.
This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license.
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