AI Can Only Automate 24% of Tasks

https://x.com/minchoi/status/1875584208380518642
WORKFORCE AUTOMATION
Issue #431
12 Jan 2025
So here’s an interesting piece of research, especially as ‘AI Agent’ is guaranteed to become cliche of the year 2025. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon (amazing how well robber barons have retconned their legacy, but I digress…) set up a business (The Agent Company) using only software AI agents to test whether they could produce any usable software. Min Choi with the accessible tweet thread here and you can download the paper here. Bottom line is: they are capable but lack common sense. Which makes sense, actually.