{"id":134343,"date":"2025-01-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134343"},"modified":"2025-01-22T17:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T22:42:47","slug":"axios-openai-product-chief-says-world-is-on-the-verge-of-ai-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134343","title":{"rendered":"(Axios) OpenAI product chief says world is &#8220;on the verge&#8221; of AI agents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Humanity is &#8220;on the verge&#8221; of having&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/10\/ai-agents-sam-altman-workers\">AI agents<\/a>&nbsp;that can complete tasks in the real world, OpenAI product chief Kevin Weil told&nbsp;<em>Axios&#8217; Ina Fried<\/em>&nbsp;in Davos Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why it matters:&nbsp;<\/strong>Weil&#8217;s prediction comes days after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/19\/ai-superagent-openai-meta\">Axios reported<\/a>&nbsp;that a major AI company was close to announcing a breakthrough regarding the creation of Ph.D.-level AI super-agents capable of completing complex tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What he&#8217;s saying:&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8220;I think 2025 is the year that we go from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/12\/18\/chatgpt-phone-call-whatsapp-message\">ChatGPT<\/a>&nbsp;being this super smart thing that can answer any question you ask to ChatGPT doing things in the real world for you,&#8221; Weil told Axios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The advanced reasoning skills of new AI models, and improved ability to be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/05\/13\/openai-google-chatgpt-ai\">multimodal<\/a>&nbsp;and engage with humans, will be key to this ability, Weil said.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He predicted that likely as soon as this year, AI agents will be able to do tasks like filling out forms or making restaurant reservations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/21\/openai-davos-kevin-weil-ai-agents\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OpenAI product chief says <br><br>world is &quot;on the verge&quot; of AI agents <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PwXP5TX9Vp\">https:\/\/t.co\/PwXP5TX9Vp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ivanas26?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ivanas26<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@axios<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VgwPqAg1s6\">pic.twitter.com\/VgwPqAg1s6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Spiros Margaris (@SpirosMargaris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpirosMargaris\/status\/1881874678467252343?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity is &#8220;on the verge&#8221; of having&nbsp;AI agents&nbsp;that can complete tasks in the real world, OpenAI product chief Kevin Weil told&nbsp;Axios&#8217; Ina Fried&nbsp;in Davos Tuesday. 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