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Claude Opus 4.7 masters Ancient Greek fill-in-the-blanks challenge

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An AI alignment researcher issued a challenge to get Claude Opus 4.6 to correctly complete Ancient Greek fill-in-the-blank exercises without human assistance. The model struggled with accentuation rules, a common issue for LLMs in specialized linguistic tasks. While initial attempts to guide Opus 4.6 were only partially successful, a later version, Opus 4.7, was able to solve the challenge in a single attempt. AI

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Claude Opus 4.7 masters Ancient Greek fill-in-the-blanks challenge

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  1. Alignment Forum TIER_1 English(EN) · DanielFilan ·

    My unsupervised elicitation challenge

    <p><em>Note: you are ineligible to complete this challenge if you’ve studied Ancient or Modern Greek, or if you natively speak Modern Greek, or if for other reasons you know what mistakes I’m claiming Opus 4.6 makes. If you’re ineligible, please don’t help other people complete t…

  2. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 English(EN) · DanielFilan ·

    Retrospective on my unsupervised elicitation challenge

    <p><em>This post contains spoilers for the unsupervised elicitation challenge of getting Claude to get my Ancient Greek homework right.</em></p> <p>tl;dr Opus 4.7 one-shots it, nothing else worked.</p> <h2>The challenge</h2> <p>A few weeks ago, I announced to the world my Unsuper…

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