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Re: Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows

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The tasks are the thing to really look at here: https://github.com/harbor-framework/terminal-bench-science/t...

I am hoping someone with more free time than myself can contribute some things in the RF engineering domain in the 'engineering-sciences' section. There's some problems out there that will definitely stump even a smart LLM.

Looks like most things definitely stump even a "smart LLM"... Best score on this is 30%. Which is what you should assume for tasks you give an LLM if they aren't exactly the same as an existing benchmarked task. They're just not that good for the purposes people seem to think they are. Very limited application space.

Re: Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows

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I worry this doesn’t check correctness. I’ve been finding Claude is lately awful at folllowing instructions, I’ll ask it to implement the algorithm from a paper and it will do something simpler and slower and when challenged do it’s stupid apology thing. It can’t be trusted with anything I’d put in a paper, it lies too much. 4.6 couldn’t do as complex tasks, but it would do what was asked.

Benchmark does check correctness. Team is working to write a paper that will likely contain failure mode analysis; checking for instruction following could be a good idea. Agents are given instructions in markdown format, allowed to read data and libraries sandboxed in a Docker container, and evaluated on deterministic pytests on the outcome. Two things the team aimed to enforce to add tasks we could trust: - Scienti…

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