Indeed. I think a lot of people who use AutoGPT or any other sort of GPT to automate any process which they don’t understand will find themselves with spaghetti in their pocket and a complete loss of control. In a good way, it will demonstrate to these people that any sort of skilled work does require a very structured internal understanding of the process. Any sort of finished product should have been 90% completed before any actual actual labor is put into its execution.
I truly don’t understand the fixation on “complete automation”, or trying to accomplish things that just simply shouldn’t be done. It’s a paved path that requires careful input based on the output. Not a teleportation device. I simply cannot see any sort of “looped GPT” tool being capable of generating any quality material without constant supervision and modifications, for now, anyways.
It’s like a mechanic says: “You aren’t paying me for the 1 hour that it took for me to fix your car, you’re paying me for the years of experience and knowledge that allowed me to take only 1 hour and minimal parts to perform the job”.
I don’t know if anyone has tried it, but GPT-3.5 was probably the worst assistant for mechanical advice. Seriously. We’re talking about life-threatening advice for simple tasks. For example, when I needed to take a rotor off, Davinci told me to completely remove the brake lines ( terrible ). Haven’t tried with ChatGPT recently so I don’t know.
When it was time to put the rotor back on, there was no mention of the brake lines. Not even to properly prime it. To be fair though, it does say “goto a mechanic”.
On the flip side, it is very handy if I know what I’m talking about, and instead of having it guide me, I am guiding it. It’s a huge difference in quality based on the fact that I know what I am talking about. Otherwise, it’s a death trap. Spaghetti in pocket, car inside of a building.
Some people don’t understand this concept until they try it for themselves.
Hopefully sooner rather than later.