Autonomous Agents have been making headlines since shortly after ChatGPT came out. I covered AutoGPT last year which was one of the most promising Agents at the time.

So what is an AI agent. ChatGPT is conversational AI chat bot the clue is in the name “Chat” it has pretty basic reasoning power that tends to break down when complex tasks are tested.

Tools like AutoGPT and others aimed to work around the limitations of this reasoning by using persistent memory and a workflow which allowed iteration. This Autogpt agent had it’s limitations however and from my experimentation at the time was more effort than reward.

Most recently tools like Crew AI extend upon this by adding multiple agents each with its own stengths and weaknesses each handing off tasks to the next. Think of this as an autonomous company.

So lets jump straight in to getting Crew AI setup and lets see what we can achieve.

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00:00 Intro

00:18 What is CrewAI

01:52 Requirements

02:31 Setup

03:07 PIP Install CrewAI

04:11 Crew Setup

04:35 API Keys

05:25 Crew Instructions

06:54 Process Options

07:07 CrewAI Tasks

08:30 Run CrewAI