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Raffaele F Ciriello, Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney

OpenAI’s new ‘deep research’ agent is still just a fallible tool – not a human-level expert

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OpenAI’s “deep research” is the latest artificial intelligence (AI) tool making waves and promising to do in minutes what would take hours for a human expert to complete.

Bundled as a feature in ChatGPT Pro and marketed as a research assistant that can match a trained analyst, it autonomously searches the web, compiles sources and delivers structured reports. It even scored 26.6% on Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE), a tough AI benchmark, outperforming many models.

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