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Wow, ok, bring on the downvotes, cause I've got plenty of nice stuff to say about Open Interpreter. I came on here to voice some criticisms but since everyone
by upghost 3y ago
Wow, ok, bring on the downvotes, cause I've got plenty of nice stuff to say about Open Interpreter. I came on here to voice some criticisms but since everyone else is already on that bandwagon, I'm switching teams!
I had a great experience with Open-Interpreter. Watching it work with GPT-4 as LLM vendor is nothing short of magical. In fact it was the closest thing I've ever seen to pure science fiction in my lifetime, esp since I hooked it up to a microphone and I was controlling it with voice. "Computer, bring up Hacker News. Summarize. Make it so.".
And it WORKS. Good times! That is a trivial exercise for GPT-4!
No, it's not going to brick your computer. You should know by now that GPT-4 is so well aligned at this point that it's yawn inducingly boring.
Before Autogen, before LlamaIndex, before LangChain, etc, Open Interpreter was the first thing to convince me that LLMs had a use beyond mere novelty -- that they could be the engine for useful agentic software robotics. Up until that point it was all theory, I had never seen it.
In fact, the paranoia that it could brick your system or extract information from your machine requires you to concede that it could generate and run code. Which it can -- except it in fact tries to be helpful. If you tell it to brick your computer, I doubt it would even comply.
My criticism comes not from Open-Interpreter but from the fact that there are many products like this that only work with GPT-4, and that's a shame.
But it was extremely inspiring to, rather than sit around and complain about it, get to work building some models and systems that can actually be used to do useful stuff and deliver on the automation promised, and it has become a sustainable small business model for me. So, thank you killianlucas, for inspiring me and making me a lot of money.
So put that in your pipe and downvote it.