Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The point is that with each advance in AI, new hurdles become apparent; when one missing aspect of “intelligence” is filled in, we find ourselves bumping up against another gap. When I speculated about GPT-5 last year, it didn’t occur to me to question whether it would know how to set priorities, because the models of the time weren’t even capable enough for that to be a limiting factor. In a post from November, AI is Racing Forward – on a Very Long Road, I wrote:</p><p>…the real challenges may be things that we can’t easily anticipate right now, weaknesses that we will only start to put our finger on when we observe [future models] performing astonishing feats and yet somehow still not being able to write that tightly-plotted novel.</p><p>In April 2024, it seemed like agentic AI was going to be the next big thing. The ensuing 16 months have brought enormous progress on many fronts, but very little progress on real-world agency. With projects like AI Village shining a light on the profound weakness of current AI agents, I think robust real-world capability is still years away."</p><p><a href="https://secondthoughts.ai/p/gpt-5-the-case-of-the-missing-agent" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">secondthoughts.ai/p/gpt-5-the-</span><span class="invisible">case-of-the-missing-agent</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chatbots</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIAgents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAgents</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AgenticAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgenticAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ReasoningModels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReasoningModels</span></a></p>