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Efosa Udinmwen

Microsoft built a fake online marketplace to see how its AI agents would work selling unsupervised - and let's just say the results were... unsurprising

A person using a payment card on an ecommerce websites.
  • Microsoft’s Magentic Marketplace exposes AI agents’ inability to act independently
  • Customer-side agents were easily influenced by business agents during simulated transactions
  • AI agents slow down significantly when presented with too many choices

A new Microsoft study has raised questions on the current suitability of AI agents operating without full human supervision/

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