Designing AI evaluation rubrics with domain experts
A rubric is only as good as the design process that produced it. This is how to run that process with domain experts, from eliciting tacit criteria to calibrating graders until they agree.
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A rubric is only as good as the design process that produced it. This is how to run that process with domain experts, from eliciting tacit criteria to calibrating graders until they agree.
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How to build AI evaluation benchmarks from the real work of domain experts, with field examples in finance, healthcare, law, and engineering.