Mercor, which claims to supply “expert data” to every top AI company, says that it spent more than $500,000 to develop 200 tasks that test whether AIs “can perform knowledge work with high economic value” across law, medicine, finance, and management consulting.
The resulting AI Productivity Index (APEX), published Wednesday, lists among its co-authors a former global managing director of McKinsey, a former dean of Harvard Business School, and a Harvard Law School professor, who advised on the design and scope of the tasks in their respective domains, according to Mercor.
APEX is “focused on going very deep,” says Brendan Foody, the company’s 22-year-old CEO. “How do we get very comprehensive about what it means to be a consultant or a banker or a doctor or lawyer?”
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