New TRACES benchmark evaluates AI's ability to make defensible scientific discoveries with unknown answers
alifcoder · x · 2026-08-20
Most current AI evaluations measure performance in fully solved territories. Apodex is asking a harder question: can AI make a defensible scientific discovery when the answer isn't known yet? The TRACES benchmark evaluates not just the final result, but whether the process was rigorous, traceable, and capable of recovering from mistakes, setting a more meaningful bar for scientific AI.
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