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AI research interns still need a supervisor
What changedOpenAI says its agents can now handle clearly defined research tasks that would take a skilled person several days. Its new internal report describes researchers running more experiments and handing over longer jobs. People still choose the questions and judge the results; this is a company-reported milestone, not an independently certified autonomous scientist.
The useful part
Why it matters
A useful assistant can take on a bigger piece of the work while the important decisions stay with a person.
Keep in mind
Good to know
More than half of successful tasks estimated at four to eight human hours still needed intervention in the company’s analysis.
Evidence