AI is entering a new phase where the focus shifts from developing methods to defining and evaluating problems, marking a transition to the "second half" of AI. This change is driven by the success of reinforcement learning (RL) that now generalizes across various complex tasks, requiring a reassessment of how we approach AI training and evaluation. The article emphasizes the importance of language pre-training and reasoning in enhancing AI capabilities beyond traditional benchmarks.

WavReward is a novel reward feedback model designed to evaluate spoken dialogue systems by assessing both their intelligence quotient (IQ) and emotional quotient (EQ) through audio language models. It introduces a specialized evaluator using multi-sample feedback and reinforcement learning, along with the ChatReward-30K dataset, significantly outperforming existing evaluation models in accuracy and subjective testing across various spoken dialogue scenarios.

JudgeLRM introduces a novel approach to using Large Language Models (LLMs) as evaluators, particularly in complex reasoning tasks. By employing reinforcement learning with judge-wise rewards, JudgeLRM models significantly outperform traditional Supervised Fine-Tuning methods and current leading models, demonstrating superior performance in tasks that require deep reasoning.