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title: "Human scientists still trounce the best AI agents on complex tasks, Nature study finds"
date: 2026-05-02
source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/human-scientists-still-trounce-the-best-ai-agents-on-complex-tasks-nature-study-finds/ar-AA22fxsb?ocid=BingNewsVerp
description: "The latest generation of AI agents can draft code, summarize papers, and churn through datasets at speeds no human can match. But when a scientific problem demands creativity, multi-step reasoning, or the kind of improvisation researchers rely on when an experiment goes sideways,"
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# Human scientists still trounce the best AI agents on complex tasks, Nature study finds

The latest generation of AI agents can draft code, summarize papers, and churn through datasets at speeds no human can match. But when a scientific problem demands creativity, multi-step reasoning, or the kind of improvisation researchers rely on when an experiment goes sideways,

*Published: 2026-05-02*