Creating Your Own AutoGPT AI-Agent

Auto-GPT is an open-source tool that prompts itself based on your input to generate a set of tasks. It uses the OpenAI API and can be used for various purposes such as marketing plans, market data analysis, and podcast topics. While it may not always work perfectly, it's easy to install and worth trying out. We have created a condensed guide to help you create your own Auto-GPT AI to assist you in achieving your goals.

To complete this project, you will require a
-    Windows 10 or 11 PC and
-    an OpenAI API account.
While you can obtain a small amount of free credit, you will need to pay for additional tokens. 

NB: The writers of this article absolves themselves in case something goes wrong during implementation of this procedure. The user assumes all risks and responsibilities that may arise from following the instructions provided

Creating an Auto-GPT AI Agent
1.    Download and Install git and choose the appropriate text editor (e.g. Notepad++). If you don't want to install git, skip to step 4 and click on the ZIP link
2.    Install the latest Python version for Windows and update the path during installation to enable system-wide usage.
3.    Open a Command Prompt and navigate to your Desktop folder.
4.    Clone the repository to the Desktop folder using this command or download and extract the ZIP archive

              git clone https://github.com/Torantulino/Auto-GPT.git

5.   Navigate to the Auto-GPT folder using the command prompt and keep it open for later use.                                        

            cd Auto-GPT

6.   Use the Python package manager, pip, to install all of the required packages. Note that this will take a few minutes to complete.

          pip install -r requirements.txt

7.   Open .env.template in a text editor.

8.   Navigate to the OpenAI API Key page. If you don’t have an OpenAI account, create one; it’s free and you can use your Google login.

9.   Click Create new secret key 

 
 
 10.    In the dialog, copy the API key. Note that once this dialog closes, the API key cannot be revealed again. A new key would have to be created.

11.    In the .env.template file, replace the holding text with your API key and click Save As, then save the file in the same folder as .env

        OPENAI_API_KEY=your-openai-api-key 

12.  Run Auto-GPT using this command in the prompt. 

         python scripts/main.py 

13.  Give your API a name and goals when prompted. These details are saved into a file called “ai_settings”. Here is the contents of my file.

      ai_goals:
      - Create project ideas using AI and Raspberry Pi
      - Create projects for intermediate users
      - Use the Python programming language
      - Save the ideas to a file
      - once done, terminate
      ai_name: PiProjectsBot
      ai_role: Create cool ideas for Raspberry Pi projects










The research process will be initiated by the AI. In this case, the AI has requested to execute a sequence of steps for investigating Raspberry Pi projects.

14. Press Y for the AI to initiate the process. It may take some time, and the AI will seek confirmation while performing these tasks.

15. Press Y again on consequent tasks for the AI to execute the necessary actions. Or you can enter “y -[NUMBER]” where [NUMBER] is the number of steps it will complete before asking permission again. Depending on the goals set, the AI will run until it has completed its tasks. In our case it produces a file with ideas for Raspberry Pi projects 

15 Things You Should Know about AutoGPT!

Note

To use OpenAI's services, it may be necessary to enter payment information into your OpenAI account, but this is not always the case. The system provides a certain amount of free credits by default. Your account may not receive as much free credit, or you may need to add payment information to your account to continue

See what Auto-GPT was able to create!

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