TaskMatrix.AI: Completing Tasks by Connecting Foundation Models with Millions of APIs

Authors: Yaobo Liang, Chenfei Wu, Ting Song, Wenshan Wu, Yan Xia, Yu Liu, Yang Ou, Shuai Lu, Lei Ji, Shaoguang Mao, Yun Wang, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong, Nan Duan

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made significant strides in recent years, with advanced foundation models like ChatGPT offering powerful conversation and code generation abilities for open-domain tasks. To address the challenge of connecting disparate AI systems for efficient task completion across domains, Yaobo Liang and colleagues introduce TaskMatrix.AI as a new AI ecosystem that leverages existing foundation models as a central system and APIs from other AI models and systems as sub-task solvers. The authors present their vision for building such an ecosystem, outlining key components such as the task proposal module, API matching module, and execution engine module. They also provide study cases to illustrate the feasibility of their vision while highlighting the main challenges they need to address next. Overall, TaskMatrix.AI offers a promising solution to efficiently solve complex problems in various fields by leveraging existing foundation models and APIs from other systems.
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  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made significant strides in recent years
  • Advanced foundation models like ChatGPT offer powerful conversation and code generation abilities for open-domain tasks
  • TaskMatrix.AI is a new AI ecosystem that leverages existing foundation models as a central system and APIs from other AI models and systems as sub-task solvers
  • The key components of TaskMatrix.AI include the task proposal module, API matching module, and execution engine module
  • TaskMatrix.AI offers a promising solution to efficiently solve complex problems in various fields by leveraging existing foundation models and APIs from other systems.
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Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made incredible progress recently. On the one hand, advanced foundation models like ChatGPT can offer powerful conversation, in-context learning and code generation abilities on a broad range of open-domain tasks. They can also generate high-level solution outlines for domain-specific tasks based on the common sense knowledge they have acquired. However, they still face difficulties with some specialized tasks because they lack enough domain-specific data during pre-training or they often have errors in their neural network computations on those tasks that need accurate executions. On the other hand, there are also many existing models and systems (symbolic-based or neural-based) that can do some domain-specific tasks very well. However, due to the different implementation or working mechanisms, they are not easily accessible or compatible with foundation models. Therefore, there is a clear and pressing need for a mechanism that can leverage foundation models to propose task solution outlines and then automatically match some of the sub-tasks in the outlines to the off-the-shelf models and systems with special functionalities to complete them. Inspired by this, we introduce TaskMatrix.AI as a new AI ecosystem that connects foundation models with millions of APIs for task completion. Unlike most previous work that aimed to improve a single AI model, TaskMatrix.AI focuses more on using existing foundation models (as a brain-like central system) and APIs of other AI models and systems (as sub-task solvers) to achieve diversified tasks in both digital and physical domains. As a position paper, we will present our vision of how to build such an ecosystem, explain each key component, and use study cases to illustrate both the feasibility of this vision and the main challenges we need to address next.

Submitted to arXiv on 29 Mar. 2023

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