Evaluating LLMs on Real-World Forecasting Against Expert Forecasters

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author Lu, Janna
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contents Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks, but their ability to forecast future events remains understudied. A year ago, large language models struggle to come close to the accuracy of a human crowd. I evaluate state-of-the-art LLMs on 464 forecasting questions from Metaculus, comparing their performance against top forecasters. Frontier models achieve Brier scores that ostensibly surpass the human crowd but still significantly underperform a group of experts.
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spellingShingle Evaluating LLMs on Real-World Forecasting Against Expert Forecasters
Lu, Janna
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks, but their ability to forecast future events remains understudied. A year ago, large language models struggle to come close to the accuracy of a human crowd. I evaluate state-of-the-art LLMs on 464 forecasting questions from Metaculus, comparing their performance against top forecasters. Frontier models achieve Brier scores that ostensibly surpass the human crowd but still significantly underperform a group of experts.
title Evaluating LLMs on Real-World Forecasting Against Expert Forecasters
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04562