OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT is attempting to trademark "GPT" (“Generative Pre-trained Transformer.”) and is already sending out cease-and-desist letters.
Screw 'em. From NewAtlas, May 4:
The insane promise – and janky reality – of AutoGPT's autonomous AI
This is no puny chatbot. AutoGPT is a stack of AIs, managed by other AIs. It goes and gets jobs done for you, figuring things out step by step and adjusting on the fly. It's an early, but janky glimpse at how autonomous AI will change your life.
Perhaps you've played with the astonishing ChatGPT, or heard about the incredible things these large language models are now capable of doing. These machines do an uncanny job of role-playing as humans, writing the sorts of things that humans would write in a given situation.
AutoGPT is an open source project by Significant Gravitas designed to take GPT to the next level. Effectively, you set it an end goal, and AutoGPT is designed to role-play as a project manager, breaking the task down into steps and delegating those steps to other AIs by writing its own task-specific prompts. It'll analyze the results as it goes, making sure its AI "subcontractors" are staying on track and delivering what they're supposed to, and it'll either proceed with the master plan to the end, or adjust and try different strategies if it decides it needs to.
Unlike ChatGPT, it's already got access to the internet, so it can research, fact-check and footnote what it writes using up-to-date information. It can also download software tools it decides are relevant, or build and run its own software to get a job done. It's got permanent memory, so if can learn and improve itself over the long term. It runs most of its processes through GPT-4, but it can also subcontract tasks to image generation tools like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. Upgraded with plugins, it can write and respond to emails, manage your Twitter and Instagram accounts, execute stock, crypto and forex trades, and more....
....MUCH, MUCH MORE
