Andrej Karpathy, the genius who worked at Tesla, and now OpenAI, says that he is “building a kind of JARVIS at OpenAI”. Undoubtedly, the guy who built Baby Llama and can easily code GPT-5 over the weekend, is probably ready for the task of building autonomous agents, if not AGI, and OpenAI has possibly cracked it.

Greg Brockman, co-founder of OpenAI, recently shared the capabilities of the GPT-4 Voice, where the assistant was able to do business negotiations without much supervision. Ironically, it identifies itself as Jarvis. Ammaar Reshi posted a screen recording of him talking to the chatbot, where it calls itself Jarvis, and is ready to assist him with everything. 

There is no doubt that OpenAI has been hung up on building AGI. Interestingly, the company took another step towards this goal and changed the “core values” listed on its website to add the focus on AGI, something that wasn’t explicitly mentioned on the page before.

Earlier, OpenAI’s careers page listed six core values for its employees, like “audacious, thoughtful, impact driven, collaborative”, and so on. But now, the first one is AGI, followed by “intense and scrappy, scale, make something people love, and team spirit”. 

People, who have been tripping over the fact that the company changed its “core values”, may be unaware of Altman and other co-founders having explicitly stated multiple times that OpenAI is all about AGI. 

OpenAI Likely to Announce “Jarvis” at DevDay

Speculations are rife that at the upcoming OpenAI DevDay conference, the company might just announce their first completely autonomous agent. People call it a “swarm of bees clicking around on the internet”, fundamentally changing the it. This definitely points to the recent Global Illumination acquisition by OpenAI, where it is training AI agents in a gamified simulation. 

Though the conference is focused on developers, and would possibly include a lot of developer-focused announcements, the release of Jarvis officially looks like in the works. 

Taking this forward to autonomous agents rumours, all of the recent developments indicate that OpenAI might just announce something like a Jarvis at its DevDay conference. Earlier, in an interview, Altman had defined AGI as something that could serve as the “equivalent of a median human that you could hire as a co-worker”.

Autonomous agents are the next step for LLM-based chatbots. Almost all the companies and researchers realise this. Microsoft recently came up with AutoGEN, a framework that enables building LLM applications using multiple agents that would be able to talk to each other.

But as the GitHub repository for AutoGEN says, “AutoGen agents are customisable, conversable, and seamlessly allow human participation,” which means there’s still a need for human input for these models, which questions the autonomous behaviour of the model. 

Similarly, Google DeepMind recently published a paper ‘How FaR Are Large Language Models From Agents with Theory-of-Mind?​‘ Even Meta’s Shepherd: A Critic for Language Model Generation​, talks about the same autonomous AI agents augmenting and doing tasks all by themselves. Other such papers include SELF: Language-Driven Self-Evolution for Large Language Model and SelfEvolve: A Code Evolution Framework via Large Language Models. 

But none of these researches have actually been realised in reality yet though. When it comes to OpenAI, they might have just cracked AGI with Jarvis. 

All roads lead to AGI

When it comes to displacement of jobs, Altman had been ready for this all this while. That is why he invested in Worldcoin and wants to provide a universal basic income for people. It would be a world where AI would be doing all our jobs and we would be sitting at home and focusing on building better things. Probably, the next Jarvis. 

On the other hand, some people are already concerned about the threat of autonomous killer robots, citing Ukraine’s recent AI-based drones that are automatically targeting and attacking targets without human control, calling them “killer robots”. Since these AI-driven drones might be able to perform better than the human-driven ones, people are expecting chaos, apart from just job displacement.

On a funnier note, have you ever got mail from a Nigerian prince stuck in a foreign country asking you to send him money? If you thought these phishing emails were a problem, AI is going to give a major upgrade to it. Now it’s not going to be some guy sending these emails, but an AI agent, posing as a Nigerian prince. Take that!