Long-Horizon Tasks, Matt Skills, and the Information Bottleneck
Model vendors love to show off long-horizon task capability with claims like “over 20 hours without human intervention,” implying that long-horizon tasks are fully automatic. But in reality, how many of our tasks can simply be left alone — running for a long time with no intake of external information at all? I saw Dr. Kong mention in a WeChat post that he ran a small survey and found that real-world tasks lasting over an hour don’t seem to be that common.
