AI agents failed at real-world consulting tasks — but Mercor's CEO says they're still on track to replace consultants [Business Insider]
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This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in New research from Mercor found AI agents failed at real-world consulting tasks. The AI models struggled with long-horizon and multi-step tasks, CEO Brendan Foody said. Foody said the models are improving so quickly that they could still replace human consultants soon. New research suggests an AI agent can't fully replace a human consultant — at least for now. Mercor, the AI training giant , tested how well leading AI models, acting as agents, performed real-world consulting, banking, and legal tasks. The models failed most of the time, but Mercor's CEO, Brendan Foody, told Business Insider that the results tell only part of the story. The consulting tasks in Mercor's APEX-Agents benchmark were designed to simulate real management consulting work, based on expert surveys and input from consultants at McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, Accenture, a
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