AutoGPT Agents Want to Automate ChatGPT, Overrun the Internet ...
AutoGPT is a rapidly emerging world where clever AI types are pondering about how the chatting portion of generative AI service could be automated away, and have the AI just do stuff on your behalf. AutoGPTs “are designed to automate GPT-4 tasks, enabling the creation of agents that complete tasks for you without any intervention.”
Microsoft’s JARVIS, Significant Gravitas‘ Auto-GPT, and Mini Yohei‘s BabyAGI are the top three trending repos on GitHub in this category. Created as a Python script that serves as an “AI-powered task management system,” these agents are not hard to set up, according to enthusiasts who described how to create and run one using Auto-GPT, “in less than 30 minutes”!
The danger of running these sorts of agents in “continuous mode” is strongly discouraged by documentation in all the major AutoGPTs. It is safer to have the script stop after each action and not proceed into the user hits return.
AutoGPT enthusiasts are already using them for myriad ways, such as creating one for sales prospecting, in which the agent can determine the top 50 companies, identify the human resource directors of these companies, send them emails and, for those who responded, book meetings on Calendly, all on behalf of the sales agent. For news podcasters, another agent can read about recent events in the news and prepare a podcast outline. For coders, there is a Test-Driven Development agent that creates software features, just by iterating from a set of tests provided by the dev.
With the potential to overrun the internet, there is still a long way to go for AutoGPT agents. These early prototypes are rough, if not potentially dangerous, yet they offer enough promise that some enthusiasts are breathlessly calling them a primitive form of artificial general intelligence (AGI). But as Nathan Lands, founder of generative AI-focused Lore.com, via Tweet explained, “They are designed to automate GPT-4 tasks, enabling the creation of agents that complete tasks for you without any intervention.”
