How to Install AutoGen on Your Computer - A Guide for Beginners
AI Summary
- Introduction to Autogen setup guide
- Using Autogen for 10 days, impressed by capabilities
- Beginner-friendly guide for running Autogen locally
- Assumes viewer has watched previous video on what Autogen is
- Step-by-Step Guide
- Open Visual Studio Code with a prepared README file
- Create a new project folder named “autogen_base”
- Create a new virtual environment using Python
- Activate the virtual environment
- Install Autogen with
pip install pyautogen- Create an “oi_config_list” file in JSON format
- Store OpenAI API keys and define models (e.g., GPT-3.5-turbo)
- Obtain OpenAI API key from the OpenAI website
- Create a new secret key, copy it, and paste it into the config file
- Building a Basic Project
- Create a “basic.py” file
- Import Autogen and set up configuration from the “oi_config_list” file
- Create an assistant agent with Autogen
- Pass the configuration list to the assistant agent
- Create a user proxy agent
- Specify the working directory for code execution
- Start a conversation between the user proxy and the assistant agent
- Provide a user prompt (e.g., write code to print odd numbers from 2 to 100)
- Running the Code
- Note on using Docker for code execution (to be covered in a future video)
- Run the Python file to see the output
- The assistant agent returns the code to print odd numbers as requested
- Conclusion
- The video is kept simple and short for beginners
- Steps are provided in the README file and GitHub repository
- Encourages subscribing for future content on Autogen and other AI agents
GitHub Repository (Link to be provided by the content creator)