Mar 9
Import AI 448: AI R&D; Bytedance's CUDA-writing agent; on-device satellite AI
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Ajeya Cotra discusses how AI progress is outstripping previous forecasts, specifically regarding software engineering capabilities. She notes that recent METR results suggest AI agents are achieving much longer time horizons for complex tasks than originally predicted.
Why it matters
Accelerating progress in autonomous software engineering suggests AI agents are reaching complex, long-horizon task capabilities much faster than anticipated.
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