Will the METR long-horizons have a >6 month doubling time for at least a 4 month period before 2026? | Manifold

Will the METR long-horizons have a >6 month doubling time for at least a 4 month period before 2026?

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The doubling time for the METR time horizons has moved off the consistent 7 months from 2019-2024 to a new exponential doubling every 4 months at around the end of 2024.

(source: https://theaidigest.org/time-horizons)

Some causes, such as reasoning models, suggest this will revert to baseline. Others, such as AI accelerating research engineering strongly, suggest the trend will continue.

This is confounded by other possible phase transitions in research, but would still be an interesting part of the future to peer into.

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Is the title phrased incorrectly or am I just having difficulty parsing it?

@MingCat yup, missed a connecting word, fixed.

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