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Humanity's Last Exam bio/chem error rate put at 29%; HLE's own review finds 18%

Raised a 29% error rate in the biology and chemistry questions of Humanity's Last Exam; the HLE team's own review put it at 18%, and it announced rolling revisions

Why it matters

A case that showed, through public refutation and response, that the answer keys of frontier benchmarks can themselves be wrong

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialfuturehouse.orghttps://www.futurehouse.org/research/hle-exam

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