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GPT as Knowledge Worker: A Zero-Shot Evaluation of (AI)CPA Capabilities (arxiv.org)
2 points by belter on Jan 16, 2023 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: An AI language model was tested with no practice on the licensing exam for accountants, answering over 200 questions on law, finance, accounting, and ethics. It answered 57.6% of non-calculation questions correctly, far above random guessing, but struggled badly when calculations were required.

Abstract

The global economy is increasingly dependent on knowledge workers to meet the needs of public and private organizations. While there is no single definition of knowledge work, organizations and industry groups still attempt to measure individuals' capability to engage in it. The most comprehensive assessment of capability readiness for professional knowledge workers is the Uniform CPA Examination developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). In this paper, we experimentally evaluate OpenAI's `text-davinci-003` and prior versions of GPT on both a sample Regulation (REG) exam and an assessment of over 200 multiple-choice questions based on the AICPA Blueprints for legal, financial, accounting, technology, and ethical tasks. First, we find that `text-davinci-003` achieves a correct rate of 14.4% on a sample REG exam section, significantly underperforming human capabilities on quantitative reasoning in zero-shot prompts. Second, `text-davinci-003` appears to be approaching human-level performance on the Remembering & Understanding and Application skill levels in the Exam absent calculation. For best prompt and parameters, the model answers 57.6% of questions correctly, significantly better than the 25% guessing rate, and its top two answers are correct 82.1% of the time, indicating strong non-entailment. Finally, we find that recent generations of GPT-3 demonstrate material improvements on this assessment, rising from 30% for `text-davinci-001` to 57% for `text-davinci-003`. These findings strongly suggest that large language models have the potential to transform the quality and efficiency of future knowledge work.

Jillian Bommarito, Michael Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz, Jessica Katz
arXiv:2301.04408 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY · submitted Jan 11, 2023
abstract · pdf · html · Source code and data available in online SI at https://github.com/mjbommar/gpt-as-knowledge-worker

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