The capabilities of language models, such as ChatGPT or Bard, are amazing. AI, however, can go much further. Proof of it is AutoGPT, a new experiment created by a developer that makes use of the GPT-3 and GPT-4 APIs to perform actions completely autonomouslysomething that, until now, no model has done on its own.
AutoGPT, unlike Bard or ChatGPT, you can generate your own prompts with just an initial request from the user, allowing you to create any type of application, website, book or carry out any other request, by itself. The tool, in fact, can check the results of its own prompts, and if something doesn’t work, fix it.
For this, AutoGPT, we reiterate, makes use of the GPT-4 API, the new OpenAI language model, although it also works with GPT-3, but with more limitations. It also has access to search results, so it can deliver results or learn from queries posted on the internet.
Auto-GPT is an open source experimental application that demonstrates the capabilities of the GPT-4 language model. This program, powered by GPT-4, chains the “thoughts” of LLM to autonomously achieve any goal you have set for yourself. As one of the first examples of GPT-4 running fully autonomously, Auto-GPT pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.
From writing code to creating a cookbook with just a short text description, this is how AutoGPT works
However, what apps does it really have? AutoGPT can be used, above all, to generate code through languages such as Python “It is able to investigate data, put it in context and then make scripts with it, which is really amazing from my point of view. You can even test your own scripts,” he says. through a publication Medium a user who has tried the tool.
It is also possible to ask AutoGPT to, for example, create a book of Japanese recipes, and it will do the whole process itself.: from researching the best recipes, to writing the text, to saving a final file in a directory. To do this, it is only necessary to make a brief text description, such as the one indicated by the aforementioned user of Medium below: “An AI that researches the best Japanese recipes online and creates a local text file containing the top 20 Japanese recipes”
AutoGPT automatically generates a list of targets:
Objective 1: Research the top 20 Japanese recipes
Goal 2: Create a cookbook from it that includes an introduction and an outro for Japanese cuisine
Objective 3: give detailed information to exotic ingredients
Objective 4: give it a clear structure
Goal 5: Save the output to a local text file in the current directory
On each target, AutoGPT performs a different process. For example, in the first one, the tool searches Google for different Japanese recipes and assesses which are the best to include in the book. Next, list the recipes with each ingredient, and then start writing the book to complete the following objectives.
Incredible capabilities that should concern us
There is no doubt that the advances of this AI are incredible. But they should also concern us, and much more than we care about ChatGPT, Bard, or any other generative AI. Mainly because These types of tools end many jobssince no human would be needed to prevent the AI from making mistakes.
Unlike AutoGPT, other models, such as ChatGPT, however, while also threatening to take jobs away from humans, are more of a tool to make people more efficient and avoid unnecessary tasks.