A look at the AI nonprofit METR, whose time-horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Kevin Roose / New York Times: A look at the AI nonprofit METR, whose time-horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems - A chart created by METR, a nonprofit A. I. organization, has become an industrywide obsession as it measures the rapid development of big A. systems.