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The novelty in the world of AI is called AutoGPT: what autonomous agents are and how to use them

...AutoGPT. They are software that allow you to create autonomous agents based on AI, able, given a wide-ranging objective, to arrive at a solution through a series of steps, which can also include actions such as web search or code execution.

“Today ChatGPT allows you to perform one task at a time, always starting from a stimulus from a human being (the so-called prompt, ed) – he explained to us Pietro Schirano, head of artificial intelligence at the US fintech Brex – Systems such as AutoGPT are instead capable of reaching the desired result for intermediate steps, autonomously, among other things by exceeding the token limits of GPT-4 (about 24 thousand words in the developer version, ed). If we ask him to write a book, he’ll proceed to character creation first, then a plot outline, and only it will eventually come down to the writing job real. There are many possible uses: someone used it to do market research, others to have an assistant in scientific research”. ...

From a technical point of view, AutoGPT is actually software based on GPT versions 4 and 3.5, which is used to interpret user goals, establish a course of action, and create intermediate instructions. It has a medium-long term memory, which allows it to remember the passages of reasoning, and can access the Web, as well as files and everything the user makes available. A bit like with the ChatGPT pluginswith the substantial difference that in this case it is the artificial intelligence itself that autonomously decides which systems to interrogate. ...

 “It is a resource still in its infancy – is Schirano’s conclusion – Sometimes it gets stuck, doesn’t finish the task it has been assigned or gets lost in too complex passages. That said, it’s improving at impressive speed.” ...

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