Get Things Done Faster with Auto-GPT: The Next Generation of Chatbots

Hey guys, have you heard about Auto-GPT yet? It's a new semi-autonomous variant of ChatGPT developed by Significant Gravitas, recently released on GitHub. But that's not all. Things are getting even crazier with AI!

To use Auto-GPT, you need two things: an environment and the ChatGPT API. The environment is where you can see the chatbot in action. For Auto-GPT, you need to use VSCode + devcontainer, Docker, or Python 3.10 or higher. According to the Auto-GPT GitHub page, you can use a Windows, Mac, or Linux PC, but our friends at Tom's Hardware recommend using Python for Windows.

The ChatGPT API allows you to integrate the power of the GPT-4 model into your environment. We've described in detail how to set up the S-GPT API in our guide. In short, you need to set up a pay-per-use account on the OpenAI website. The API costs only $0.002 per 1,000 tokens for the ChatGPT-3.5 API, but if you want to use the ChatGPT-4 API as Significant Gravitas recommends, it will be a bit more expensive. The GPT-4 API starts at $0.03 per 1,000 tokens for queries and then an additional $0.06 per 1,000 tokens for task completion. Once you've set up your API account and configured your environment to use Auto-GPT, you can get started. However, you'll need some Python know-how to do so. For more detailed instructions, we recommend checking out Tom's Hardware guide on how to create your own Auto-GPT AI agent, or check out Significant Gravitas' instructions on the GitHub page.

If you're sufficiently experienced with Python, there's another option. AgentGPT is a free beta web application you can use to see what Auto-GPT can do. However, due to its beta status, AgentGPT is significantly more limited. There are no specific features that Auto-GPT has and ChatGPT lacks, except for one crucial feature - semi-autonomy.

With ChatGPT, you have to enter each prompt yourself. That means that if there's a problem, a follow-up task is needed, etc., you're the one who has to prompt ChatGPT to do that follow-up task. With Auto-GPT, this process is fully automated. You simply enter your main goal, and then Auto-GPT takes care of all follow-up tasks (both asking and answering) until the task is completed.

It's amazing how quickly AI technology has developed in recent years. Now we have even semi-autonomous chatbots like Auto-GPT that can assist us in completing tasks. But where will all of this lead us? What can we expect next from AI technology? Will we be able to improve the technology even further to tackle even more complex tasks? Or will we eventually reach a point where AI is so advanced that it can fully replace us? Only time will tell, but it will definitely be exciting to see where the future of AI technology leads us. And where do you think all of this is heading?