Vantage in Google Labs - Practice & assess future-ready skills with AI-simulated team

Google Research just made the hardest skills to measure, actually measurable.

Vantage is a Google Research experiment that uses GenAI to assess future-ready skills like collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. AI avatars simulate real scenarios, score your performance, and deliver a personal Skill Map.

The problem: Critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity matter most but are nearly impossible to assess at scale.

The solution: Vantage uses an Executive LLM to simulate real team scenarios, surface skill evidence, and score performance at human-expert level.

What stands out:
🧠 AI simulated team: Work through missions like debates, pitches, and experiments with AI avatars.
🎯 Executive LLM: Introduces dynamic challenges like conflict and constraints mid-conversation.
📊 AI Evaluator: Scores using expert-level rubrics with human-like agreement.
🗺️ Personal Skill Map: Visual scores with precise qualitative feedback.
🔬 Validated by New York University: AI scoring matches human experts across 188 testers.
📐 Aligned with OECD and World Economic Forum frameworks.
🎓 Built for classrooms: Designed as a skills layer alongside existing curricula.

Skills assessed:
- Collaboration: Conflict resolution and project management.
- Creative Thinking: Generating, building, and evaluating ideas.
- Critical Thinking: Interpreting, analyzing, and judging information.

Different because it’s not a test, but an adaptive conversation that reveals real capability.

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Interesting idea! How do you ensure the AI-simulated scenarios stay relevant as tech stacks and best practices evolve? I remember one painful incident where outdated training led to a junior engineer deploying a container with root privileges to production.

Cool! Built something like this before under the guise of an interview and its interesting how a reframing from interview to assessment enables you to discover a whole value add of education.

critical thinking and collaboration are the skills I need most but never know how to actually benchmark. curious how the skill map tracks improvement over time. do repeated sessions show progression?

Very interesting. Measuring soft skills in a realistic way is always hard because people modify their behavior when they know they are being observed (i.e., the Hawthorne Effect). I wonder if the fact that they are being audited by an AI would defuse that behavior.