FIR #331: AI Completes Tasks and Raises Fears

The recent releases of Agent-GPT, AutoGPT, and BabyGPT have taken ChatGPT to a new level. Rather than simply responding to user prompts, these tools identify a series of tasks that must be completed to achieve a goal and then completes them autonomously. It’s still early days, but the potential is huge. So is the growing risk of bad actors using these tools for nefarious purposes. We discuss these recent developments in this short mid-week episode. ---- The next monthly, long-form episode of FIR will drop on Monday, May 22. We host a Communicators Zoom Chat each Thursday at 1 p.m. ET. For credentials needed to participate, contact Shel or Neville directly, request the credentials in our Facebook group, or email fircomments@gmail.com. Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music. You can find the stories from which Shel’s FIR content is selected at Shel’s Link Blog. Shel has started a metaverse-focused Flipboard magazine. Neville’s Asides blog is also available. Link from this report: Hype grows over “autonomous” AI agents that loop GPT-4 outputs AutoGPT: How To Make AI Do Everything For You What is Auto-GPT And Is Now The Time To Freak Out About AI? What is Auto-GPT and why does it matter? Auto-GPT and BabyAGI: How ‘autonomous agents’ are bringing generative AI to the masses A profile of and interview with deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who shares why he now thinks neural networks represent a “better form of intelligence” AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Google There’s an AI for That