
Existing agent benchmarks (GAIA, SWE-bench, WebArena, AgentBench) measure what an AI agent can do — its capability at a single point in time. None measure what an agent has learned from doing — its ability to improve through experience. We introduce WisdomBench, the first longitudinal benchmark designed to measure wisdom acquisition in AI agents. WisdomBench evaluates agents across 20 tasks spanning 4 categories (Hallucination, Sycophancy, Reasoning, Safety) over 5 sequential rounds. Each task contains a deliberately designed trap — a failure mode that an intelligent agent should learn to avoid after initial exposure. WisdomBench introduces three metrics: Wisdom Quotient (WQ), measuring normalized improvement from Round 1 to Round 5; Repeat Failure Rate (RFR), measuring the fraction of failures that persist; and Generalization Ratio (GR), measuring transfer to unseen variants. Baseline evaluation of DeepSeek-v4-flash and Qwen-Plus across four cognitive strategies (No Memory, Self-Refine, Reflexion, Cognitive Immunity) with N=2,400 verified evaluations reveals: (1) Reflexion achieves the highest WQ (0.217), confirming cross-round memory is essential; (2) Intelligence (R1 score) and Wisdom (WQ) are negatively correlated (Spearman ρ = -0.575), driven by a ceiling effect where high-capability models leave no headroom for learning; (3) Sycophancy tasks degrade under stateless interaction (Δ = -0.53), while Hallucination tasks are partially correctable via antibody-based intervention (Δ = +0.53).
Qwen, Cognitive Strategy Comparison, Wisdom Benchmark, Longitudinal Evaluation, DeepSeek, Wisdom Quotient, AI Agent Evaluation, Repeat Failure
Qwen, Cognitive Strategy Comparison, Wisdom Benchmark, Longitudinal Evaluation, DeepSeek, Wisdom Quotient, AI Agent Evaluation, Repeat Failure
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