$400K Physical-Engineering's Last Exam hits Kaggle, human-judge gating sparks pushback

ducha_aiki · x · 2026-11-11

ARRay693 launches the Physical-Engineering's Last Exam competition on Kaggle with $400,000 in prizes, testing whether agents can engineer the physical world — best agents score under 50% today. Microsoft's JFPuget criticizes its human-in-the-loop judging: Kaggle's edge is automated scoring, and gating submissions with human evaluation introduces bias; extra jury prizes are fine, but a hard human gate is "plain wrong."

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