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LLMs can predict AI agent job success with specific limitations

Researchers have developed a new benchmark called PAYWORTHY to assess whether large language models (LLMs) can predict the success rate of AI agents on freelance jobs. The benchmark consists of 1,494 real freelance job postings, and LLMs are tasked with forecasting the likelihood of an agent's success. When provided with specific limitations of the agent, most models demonstrated strong predictive capabilities, achieving AUC scores between 0.66 and 0.86. However, when described as a generic agent with standard tools, the same models performed no better than random chance. AI

IMPACT This research highlights the importance of specific agent capabilities for successful task completion and suggests LLMs can be trained to assess these capabilities.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new academic paper introducing a benchmark for evaluating LLMs. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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LLMs can predict AI agent job success with specific limitations

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    PAYWORTHY: Can LLMs Predict Which Freelance Jobs an AI Agent Will Complete?

    Before an AI agent takes on a paid job, someone has to judge whether it is likely to succeed. We test whether frontier language models can make this call before any attempt. We propose PAYWORTHY which contains 1{,}494 real freelance job postings, sampled from 18.8M postings made …