"But what if you don’t want to have to come up with all of the tasks for the AI to do? What if you want a teammate rather than just a tool? What if you want the AI to think for itself?"

"“[Intelligent] autonomous agents are the natural endpoint of automation in general. In principle, an agent could be used to automate any other process. Once these agents become highly sophisticated and reliable, it is easy to imagine an exponential growth in automation across fields and industries.”"

"Autonomous agents are programs, powered by AI, that when given an objective are able to create tasks for themselves, complete tasks, create new tasks, reprioritize their task list, complete the new top task, and loop until their objective is reached."

"“The future of autonomous agents looks like everybody becoming a manager.”"

"The programming techniques and the AI needed to power autonomous agents are real and extremely new. There are many open source projects, like AutoGPT, BabyAGI, and Microsoft’s Jarvis, that are trending on Github and within AI communities and departments."

"In the first two weeks of the creation of open sourced autonomous agent code bases, almost 100,000 developers are building autonomous agents, improving them, and pushing them to their limits, and thats only in the first few weeks of these concepts being invented."

"“AI agents will be everywhere. Billion-dollar companies will come from a small team that deploys ai agents.”"

"But it is also possible that knowledge becomes increasingly proprietary, as individuals and companies try to gain economic advantage in a world where applications of factual knowledge are commoditized, and the collective knowledge of humanity begins to stagnate."

"“It is ""primitive AGI"". It is remarkable that simply wrapping an LLM inside a loop gets you an autonomous agent that can reason, plan, think, remember, learn - all on its own. It demonstrates the untapped power and flexibility of what LLMs can do if wrapped in the right structures and prompts. The entire concept is less than month old so I can't wait to see how increasingly sophisticated agents built off of increasingly more capable LLMs impact the world.”"

"“Autonomous agents will allow everyone to live like a head of state! Need something done? Just ask, and your agents will take care of the rest. Never again will you have to waste brainpower on the routine or mundane.”"

"So the agent looks at the objective, uses an AI like OpenAI’s GPT-4 which allows it to understand what it is reading, and it comes up with it’s first task. “Task: Search google for news related to Twitter”."

"It comes up with two new tasks. 1) Write a summary of the news. 2) Read the contents of the news links found via google."

"Now the agent looks back at its main objective (to find out the recent news about Twitter and then send a summary) and at what it just completed (got a bunch of links of news about Twitter) and decides what its next tasks need to be."

"“This will soon transform many industries. It will be a lot easier for people to do many things at once with the use of Autonomous Agents. Just give it a task, and it will complete it. Such a powerful concept so far…”"

"“In the mid-term, I believe you’re going to see a huge rise in 1-2 people startups that use a combination of AutoGPTs and tools like ChatGPT. And they’ll be able to make the kind of progress you’d previously had expected from a 100 person startup. Long-term I believe that most work can and will be replaced by AutoGPTs.”"

"You create autonomous agents and make them available for others to hire."

"You hire autonomous agents and can now afford to be more productive in your personal life, or in business."

"One use case that has sparked a lot of interest is sales prospecting”"

"Initialize Goal: Define the objective for the AI."

"Task Creation: The AI checks its memory for the last X tasks completed (if any), and then uses it’s objective, and the context of it’s recently completed tasks, to generate a list of new tasks."

"Feedback Collection: The AI collects feedback on the completed task, either in the form external data or internal dialogue from the AI. This feedback will be used to inform the next iteration of the Adaptive Process Loop."

"Task Prioritization: The AI reprioritizes the task list by reviewing it’s objective and looking at the last task completed."

"“This is beyond just virtual assistants. This is a revolution in accelerating all work, research, and even play online. Anything you can do online that takes hours, days, months can now be completed in the background in minutes.”"

"Example 2: Political Campaign Manager Autonomous Agent"

"We will see many products and creations that will advertise ""only made by humans"". It should become a very popular label very soon. The more technology grows the more I am enjoying myself long periods of completely offline time, soon also ""off AI"" time.”"

"Example 3: Math Tutor Autonomous Agent"

"People will move through life with autonomous agents of all kinds augmenting their movements, decisions, and actions. If at some point we have neural implants then this will all happen seamlessly just like thinking in your own head works today."

"“Everyone will have access to a virtual researcher, assistant, writer, or worker at no or low cost. Access is democratized.”"

"2023 multiple commercialized autonomous agents for gaming, personal use, marketing, and sales."

"2026 most people in first-world countries are going about every day life with the support of an army of autonomous agents."

"Yes, people will work for the AIs. Everyone will use them, yes, but only a few will know what they are or how to make them."

"LLMs (Large Language Models) are the most democratizing force humans have ever invented. Why? LLMs can now run on cheap computers without being connected to a central server."

"We will also ""work for AI agents"" in the same way that we must work within the constraints of companies, processes and other systems."

"Build It Yourself: Look at the framework I provided earlier and embark on a journey to build everything from scratch! You can definitely do this, it’s not a scary as it might sound. Some recommended software solutions are OpenAI’s GPT-4, Pinecone vector database, and LangChain’s framework."

"Auto-GPT: This is a popular open source option created by Toran Richards. It includes options to connect to the internet, use apps, long-term and short-term memory, and more."

"BabyAGI: Another popular open source option, this one created by Yohei Nakajima. While this one doesn’t connect to the internet yet, it is extremely elegant with under 200 lines of code."

"The two (only?) areas of LLMs where we've seen big adoption so far is copywriting and programming."

"people from all walks of life can benefit from the expertise and efficiency previously reserved for the upper echelons of society."

"This democratization of personal assistance can lead to greater productivity and a more balanced work-life experience, empowering individuals to focus on their passions, creativity, and personal growth while their AI assistants take care of the more mundane aspects of their daily lives"

"We know LLMs are good at programming on a problem basis but we haven't seen proof points that they could, for example, port an entire codebase from Android to iOS, or even create an app from scratch."