Researchers debate the best metric for AI progress: human-equivalent length of autonomous tasks
arjunrajlab · x · 2026-09-06
arjunrajlab argues the most reasonable metric for AI capability is the human-equivalent length of tasks it can complete autonomously, noting this has been growing exponentially (or faster) — aligned with METR's official measure. wcratcliff pushes back asking whether such tracking can be done quantitatively without cherry-picking in either direction; arjunrajlab points to METR and others' official metrics as a starting point.
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