The tasks AI can do double every seven months

March 19, 2025

The METR institute measures how long the tasks that AI agents can complete take: that length has been doubling roughly every seven months for six years. If the trend holds, projects that take a month of human work would be automatable by the end of the decade.

Source: METR

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