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Astra Held Its Ground (Truth)

A new benchmark, TheoPhysEval, comprises 50 unpublished research-level theoretical physics problems with verifiable answers, each solvable by a world expert in about a day or less but taking considerably longer for experts in adjacent specialties, and it was used to test off-the-shelf AI agents. The benchmark was described in a post on Marginal REVOLUTION titled "Astra Held Its Ground (Truth)".

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TheoPhysEval: We present a suite of 50 unpublished research-level theoretical physics problems with verifiable answers. Without AI assistance, a typical problem in our collection could be solved by a world expert in about a day or less but would take considerably longer for experts in adjacent specialties. We test the ability of off-the-shelf AI agents […]

The post Astra Held Its Ground (Truth) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.

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marginalrevolution.com — original article Okie-dokie, Casey Handmer edition Merging LLMs and economics research The Macroeconomic Effect of AI through software engineering
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