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Q&A: Promise and perils of agentic AI

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Chatbots and large language models can execute a seemingly countless number of tasks, from writing emails and reports to generating code and analyzing data. However, they still primarily act only in response to user prompts and rely on their own predictive models to generate text.

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  1. 2026-08-21 01:40 · TechXplore AI & ML
    Q&A: Promise and perils of agentic AI

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