New Paper Questions AI Agents’ Capacity for Complex Tasks

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A non-peer-reviewed paper argues that large language model–based AI agents cannot reliably perform complex computational or agentic tasks and are prone to hallucinations, though experts say guardrails and modular components can mitigate these limits.
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