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Toran Bruce Richards releases AutoGPT

AutoGPT released

Why it matters

Created the story of an AI that just gets on with it once you give it a goal, while also exposing the public to infinite loops, hallucinations and runaway costs

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Pressen.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoGPT

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