Why it matters?
Imagine if an AI was your teammate rather than a tool? Imagine if it came up with all the tasks it was supposed to do?
Problem
We waste an exorbitant amount of time defining and executing tedious tasks.
Solution
Autonomous agents understand problems, create tasks, execute tasks, prioritize workflows and perform loops until a desired objective is attained.
FunFacts and Finds
More than 100,000 developers are building autonomous agents. Read more here
Stanford and Google populated a tiny virtual town with AI agents in an experiment. It was very wholesome. Read more here
Westworld is a simulation based on a westworld themed park to test the limits of AI agents. Read more here
It is rumored that investment firm Blackrock has automated its investment strategy through its indigenous AI agent Robo Advisor 4.0
Autonomous AI agents facebook group
Players
BabyAGI - A large LLM that mimics human behavior to assist in various tasks
NautoAI- AI powered software that anticipates driving behavior to reduce collisions
Levatas - Agent for physical inspection of worksites
Aomni - Agent that helps you conduct online research faster
Hyperwrite - A writing tool that browses the internet like a human and performs tasks like ordering Pizza
OctaneAI - Automate marketing for ecommerce stores
AutoGPT - Create AI agents powered by GPT-4
CamelAI - This is not an agent itself but an effort a “communicative agents for mind exploration of large scale language model society”
Plato AI - An agent that develops intuition like an infant using both reinforcement and supervised learning.
Predictions
Eventually you will be talking to an Autonomous AI agent and not working on a computer. Read more here
Autonomous agents will allow everyone to live like a head of state. Chris Yeh talks about autonomous AI agents in his book Blitzscaling with Reid Hoffman
Build it yourself AI agents for vertical specific usecases
Opportunities
Niche autonomous agents for SaaS project management tools like Jira, Linear etc. For instance, you can ask your agent to tell you which engineer has capacity to take on more work and assign them a task automatically. Take a look at Cognosys
Information extraction, document analysis and knowledge management agents.
We’ve been cooking something
we recently launched STEVE. An agent that connects with Linear and BigQuery to parse and analyze any information you need. The best part? You can also upload CSVs and PDFs. Check it out here
The table below shows a plethora of opportunities in the space
From Matt Schicht, CEO of Octane AI