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Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
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…
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| Dec 21, 2025 | Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks by spicypete | 247 | 193 |
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