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    AI Agents: Substance or Snake Oil with Arvind Narayanan - #704

    The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) · Oct 7, 2024 · 54 min
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    Today, we're joined by Arvind Narayanan, professor of Computer Science at Princeton University to discuss his recent works, AI Agents That Matter and AI Snake Oil. In “AI Agents That Matter”, we explore the range of agentic behaviors, the challenges in benchmarking agents, and the ‘capability and reliability gap’, which creates risks when deploying AI agents in real-world applications. We also…

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