AutoGPT: the first viral AI agent
In one sentence A developer publishes AutoGPT on GitHub: given a text goal, the system calls GPT-4 in a loop to plan tasks, execute them, and self-criticize. In two weeks, becomes the most-starred repo in history.
A developer publishes a small script on GitHub called AutoGPT. The idea: instead of chatting with GPT-4 one question at a time, you give it a goal ("research the top 5 open-source CRMs and write a report") and it generates its own sub-tasks, executes them one by one, decides when it's done.
It works poorly, often loops, burns through tokens. But the concept ignites the collective imagination: "AI does things on its own". In two weeks, AutoGPT becomes the most-starred project in GitHub history.
From that moment, "AI agent" stops being academic jargon and becomes a product category.
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