Can Large Language Models Play Text Games Well? Current State-of-the-Art and Open Questions
Authors: Chen Feng Tsai, Xiaochen Zhou, Sierra S. Liu, Jing Li, Mo Yu, Hongyuan Mei
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- Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and GPT-4 are highly skilled at communicating with humans.
- Researchers from multiple institutions conducted a technical report investigating LLMs' abilities to play text games.
- ChatGPT performs competitively compared to other systems, but still exhibits a low level of intelligence in certain areas.
- ChatGPT cannot construct a world model by playing the game or reading the manual, may fail to leverage existing knowledge, and cannot infer the goal of each step as the game progresses.
- There is currently a lack of certain fundamental properties of intelligence in ChatGPT, although some may emerge in future LLMs as they grow larger.
- Establishing a benchmark to evaluate these properties and tracking their potential advancement is desirable, and researchers are working on this.
- These results raise new research questions about LLMs' capabilities for playing text games at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing.
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and GPT-4 have recently demonstrated their remarkable abilities of communicating with human users. In this technical report, we take an initiative to investigate their capacities of playing text games, in which a player has to understand the environment and respond to situations by having dialogues with the game world. Our experiments show that ChatGPT performs competitively compared to all the existing systems but still exhibits a low level of intelligence. Precisely, ChatGPT can not construct the world model by playing the game or even reading the game manual; it may fail to leverage the world knowledge that it already has; it cannot infer the goal of each step as the game progresses. Our results open up new research questions at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing.
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