Silicon Valley is buzzing about BabyAGI. Should we be worried?
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It’s a moniker that manages to sound both cute and scary at the same time, a bit like mogwais in the cult classic comedy-horror film Gremlins. BabyAGI is basically software that turns GPT-4 (OpenAI’s latest large language model, which normally just outputs words) into a useful digital assistant that can complete tasks and take actions across the internet. Instead of just receiving text answers to prompts from GPT-4, with BabyAGI you can do things like plan and automatically execute a campaign to grow your Twitter following or create and run a content marketing business. “LLMs are quite limited, but this new class of systems—let’s call them GPT-based agents are potentially much more powerful,” Oren Etzioni, an emeritus computer scientist at the University of Washington who was also the founding CEO of the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence in Seattle, said. “Two things are going to matter hugely from here: the first is knowing what LLM agents are actually best suited for, and the second is seeing how robust they actually are, especially when they’ll meet the long tail of tasks from being made widely available,” he said.
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