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AI's Version of Moore's Law? – Computerphile

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Research suggests the rate at which AI is able to stay ‘on task’ is doubling every seven months. Is this the AI equivalent of Moore’s Law? – Sydney Von Arx works on adversarial stress-testing at METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research.)

AI digest explainer:
https://theaidigest.org/time-horizons
The Paper:
https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/

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This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.

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