According to a recent study, AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT from OpenAI can efficiently run a software company with minimal human intervention. These findings were reached after another study showed that clients supported by large language models were able to manage a virtual city on their own.
As mentioned on “Business Insider,” a team of researchers conducted a recent experiment involving a team from Brown University and several Chinese universities to determine if AI-powered robots, supported by the “Chat AI T3.5” model, could complete software development without the need for prior training.
The study found that the AI-reliant company was able to complete the entire software development process in less than 7 minutes at a cost of less than one dollar. This was achieved by identifying “potential weaknesses,” detecting and correcting errors through “memory” and “self-thinking” capabilities, and the newspaper noted that approximately 86.66% of the software systems created “were implemented without any flaws.”
The researchers launched a virtual company named ChatDev to work on software development, adopting the cascade model, which follows a sequential approach to program creation. The company was divided into four consecutive stages based on time, which are: design stage, coding stage, testing stage, and documentation stage.
The researchers assigned specific roles to AI-powered robots by encouraging each one with “vital details” describing “specific tasks and roles, communication protocols, completion criteria, and constraints.”
