From Token-Max to Outcome-Max: How You Use AI Determines Its Productivity
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models can perform increasingly complex tasks, yet greater AI usage does not necessarily translate into proportional productivity gains. We identify token-max as one source of this inefficiency: when token consumption is treated as productive effort, agents are encouraged to over...
Chen-Xi Xu, Meng-Qiao Liu, Bei-Bei Li et al.
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