🚀 Welcome to the 2026 Prediction Audit Special on AI Unraveled.
The "Year of AGI" has concluded, but the machine god never arrived. Instead, 2025 left us with a digital landscape cluttered with "slop," a 95% failure rate for autonomous agents, and a sobering reality check on the physics of intelligence.
In this special forensic accounting of the year that was, we dismantle the hype of 2025 to build a grounded baseline for 2026. We contrast the exuberant forecasts of industry captains—who promised us imminent superintelligence—with the operational realities of the last twelve months.
Strategic Pillars & Key Topics:
📉 The AGI Audit & The Agentic Gap
- The Deployment Wall: While raw model performance scaled (GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 shattered benchmarks), the translation into economic value stalled.
- 95% Failure Rate: We analyze why the "digital workforce" narrative collapsed into a "human-in-the-loop" reality, leaving a wreckage of failed pilots in its wake.
🌫️ The Culture of "Slop"
- Word of the Year: Merriam-Webster selected "Slop" as the defining word of 2025, acknowledging the textural shift of the internet.
- Dead Internet Theory: How AI-generated filler content overwhelmed organic interaction, validating the once-fringe theory with hard traffic data.
🔋 Physics & The Model Wars
- The Energy Ceiling: The brutal constraints of power consumption that put a leash on scaling laws.
- The Monopoly Endures: Despite the hype, the Nvidia monopoly remains the bedrock of the industry.
- GPT-5.2 vs. Gemini 3 vs. Llama 4: A technical review of the battleground that prioritized "System 2" reasoning over real-world agency.
🌍 The Regulatory Splinternet
- US vs. EU: The widening divergence between the American "Wild West" approach and Europe's compliance-heavy regime.
Keywords: AGI Prediction Audit, AI Slop, Dead Internet Theory, Agentic AI Failure Rate, GPT-5.2 vs Gemini 3, Nvidia Monopoly, AI Energy Crisis, Generative Noise, 2026 AI Trends, Etienne Noumen.
Source article: https://djamgatech.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AI-Prediction-Audit_-2025-Review.pdf
Host Connection & Engagement:
- Etienne on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enoumen
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