OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicted in early 2025 that AI agents would join the workforce and materially change company output, but the technology has fallen dramatically short by year's end according to industry insiders.
Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI co-founder, said in October that AI agents are "cognitively lacking and it's just not working," estimating it will take about a decade to resolve current issues with intelligence, multimodal capabilities, and memory retention.
A Deloitte survey found only 11% of organizations currently use AI agents in production, with real-world testing revealing even basic tasks like clicking elements or selecting dropdown menus can take minutes or fail entirely.
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