# Bad Influence story: NeoCognition's ApprenticeBench finds frontier AI agents beat human testers at 2.5x cost

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-07 18:08. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/b6d3cc4f-85ee-4132-89f6-0514fe5ece9a

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Latest update (11-07 18:08): NeoCognition's ApprenticeBench finds frontier models beat human testers at 2.5× cost

Overview: NeoCognition shares results from ApprenticeBench, a benchmark that tests whether AI agents can learn a job like new employees, including company conventions, tools and tacit knowledge. Yu Su of NeoCognition says frontier models beat human testers on task success rate but cost 2.5 times as much per task.

The finding was reported by LMSYS Org on X, which relayed Su's results. The report gives no further figures on task counts, models tested or the size of the success-rate gap.

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1. 11-07 18:08 · LMSYS Org · [NeoCognition's ApprenticeBench finds frontier models beat human testers at 2.5× cost](https://badinfluence.news/items/ep84zqz8ch6wr3ivctc2lre8u)
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