[Linkpost] “METR: Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks” by Zach Stein-Perlman

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This is a link post. Summary: We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the length of tasks AI agents can complete. We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doubling time of around 7 months. Extrapolating this trend predicts that, in under a decade, we will see AI agents that can independently complete a large fraction of software tasks that currently take humans days or weeks.
Full paper | Github repo
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First published:
March 19th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/deesrjitvXM4xYGZd/metr-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks
Linkpost URL:
https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/
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