What is AutoGPT?

You may have seen the phrase “AutoGPT” in the news or on Twitter over the past week, but what does an AutoGPT do exactly?

AutoGPT is an AI agent capable of autonomously performing web-based tasks.

If ChatGPT was a single-shot pistol that can’t go online, AutoGPT is a machine gun that can execute tasks on the internet. (정말 멋진 비유임)

Unlike interactive systems like ChatGPT, which necessitate manual instructions for each task, Auto-GPT proactively generates and assigns subtasks to itself in pursuit of the overarching objective, without the compulsory involvement of human operators.

The AI agent is equipped with the ability to search the internet, modify and enhance its own code, and engage in a process of recursive debugging, development, and self-improvement.

Built on the foundation of OpenAI's GPT-4 API, Auto-GPT is among the pioneering instances of GPT-4 functioning autonomously. It boasts features such as short-term and long-term memory management, which includes handling context window length requirements, as well as text-to-speech capabilities for vocal output.

The AI agent's capacity to respond to prompts, adapt to new information, and iteratively create and refine its own prompts for recursive instances has garnered significant attention. Following its release, Auto-GPT quickly rose to prominence as the top trending repository on GitHub and has consistently made waves on Twitter.

Though few OpenAI users have access to a GPT-4 API (you must be a paid subscriber to ChatGPT Plus, and have been granted GPT-4 API access from the waitlist), there is a slimmed-down version called Godmode that uses GPT-3.5, and makes you approve each action.

In theory, here is what an AutoGPT could do:

Search the internet
Send emails
Automatically respond to customer inquiries
Make purchase/refund decisions
Coordinate logistics with real people
Write files
Execute code

Though the current version and free GPT-3.5 demos are cumbersome and often fail at executing tasks, keep in mind that these are the first iterations of a very complex program.

However within the year, AutoGPT could supplement a substantial amount of the workforce, especially when GPT-4 gets its multimodal capabilities and is able to interpret images.

Make no mistake, AutoGPTs will be used by everyone.

Read more: Godmode, AutoGPT on GitHub