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Created by dedicated AI evangelist and developer Toran Bruce Richards, Auto-GPT is more of a parent program used to generate AI agents. Essentially, the program uses a script to link outputs of the GPT-4 large language model, feeding itself based on its responses so it can iterate and correct itself. It requires a bit of setup, though you can find a good tutorial for creating your own Auto-GPT instance in this Twitter thread by developer Sully Omar.

What’s most impressive about Auto-GPT is how it all runs off natural language prompts. A user can give the AI up to five goals to accomplish based on the original description. By default, users have to give it permission to complete each task, though there is the option of letting it go freestyle.

Some users said they to were able get the AI to order food or book flights online for them through a platform built on Auto-GPT. Omar showed how he managed to get Auto-GPT to complete some simple market research. So far, the main application for the agent has been creating lists and performing simple research tasks.

And some of those designs can be malicious. As first reported by VentureBeat, security researcher Simon Willison wrote about his concerns that simple prompt injection techniques could create avenues for bad actors to attack people through external tools like Auto-GPT.

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