Has anyone got Auto-GPT to complete any task?

[WyattB111]

Is it just me or can nobody get AUto-GPT to actually perform and complete any tasks? I've been trying for about a week with about 20 different updated branches. It's always some error or another/ Just curious if it is possible yet to have it actually complete something.

[mylesmg]

I got it to write an outline. That's about it. I've been playing around with the main prompt to see what I can do to get it to just make a decision and stick with it. I think that might be counter to the whole paradigm of this script though.

Here's my YAML:

ai_goals:

• write an outline for a topic on How to Run a Mile
• make sure that outline is detailed and long enough for a very long 5000 word article
• save the outline to a file named outline_{the topic}.txt
• shutdown
  ai_name: Lar-GPT
  ai_role: a robot used to write a content outline for an article

[mrmza]

Have the same issue. Maybe some issues on pinecone side? I tried this:
curl -i https://controller.YOUR_ENVIRONMENT.pinecone.io/actions/whoami -H 'Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY'
and the result is the same

[LouisRosche]

Same issue as aboves!

[LouisRosche]

I'm suddenly getting much better results now that I'm using Pinecone for my MEMORY_BACKEND. I also think scaling down the size of the task helped.

@AugustWasilowski How did you get Pinecone to work? Mine is bugging: #2941 (comment)

[TheCoderHero]

I am getting the same error trying to use Pinecone for the memory.

[vanperxx]

same issue for pinecone usage

[lfricken]

Yes. But only with GPT4. I requested the following:

1. create a basic html blog with two blog posts about neural networks
2. localhost the files

It successfully googled, synthesized two posts, created 3 html pages and linked them all together. I could navigate between them. Then it localhosted them on port 8000. It was basic html with no css as I expected. Though when it localhosted them, that took over the thread and never returned, leaving it unable to do anything else which is why I made this PR.

I haven't even tried anything else yet.

[Mkinder]

i think most people aren't able to finish their tasks because their not using gpt4 honestly. i was looking for a comment like yours to give me hope! (least once i get gpt4 access)

[m4ntr4r4m4]

I have problems with the command google. can you help?

[endolith]

I finally got GPT4 access and it still doesn't work. It still tries to use wrong commands, can't do basic tasks, produces bad json, and crashes constantly.

[WyattB111]

Just making my weekly check back to see if AutoGPT is working yet to complete tasks or if it still gets stuck. Any updates?

[vissequ]

I can make one

[vissequ]

Or do we think other software would be better?

[GoMightyAlgorythmGo]

Just making my weekly check back to see if AutoGPT is working yet to complete tasks or if it still gets stuck. Any updates?

The stable version is "insanely" stable now (not perfect, but MAN it is different in a good way) it gets noticably better every week i guess. well. At least i fall more in love + lern what causes the erros like "do_nothing" seems to be when it plans a lot and you dont spesify that it should only plan for a limited time "balance planing with actions " and such things

[WyattB111]

Just making my weekly check back to see if AutoGPT is working yet to complete tasks or if it still gets stuck. Any updates?

The stable version is "insanely" stable now (not perfect, but MAN it is different in a good way) it gets noticably better every week i guess. well. At least i fall more in love + lern what causes the erros like "do_nothing" seems to be when it plans a lot and you dont spesify that it should only plan for a limited time "balance planing with actions " and such things

Thanks for the feedback. I may give it a shot this week.

[samuelbutler]

Take a look at my comment down the thread, I was able to get AutoGPT to accomplish a fairly complex task with multiple Python files reading and writing JSON.

#1137 (comment)

[jaykayenn]

It successfully created a tictactoe program in Python with gpt3only. AutoGPT composed all the functions one by one, compiled it into a .py, and even fixed some errors. Quite impressive for gpt3only.
It only started to fail when it was doing automated testing of the program because it wasn't responding to the program's user interface. So I stopped AutoGPT and tested the program myself, works perfectly.

[AntonioCiolino]

What was the prompts for that?

[MeleeMech]

I have used it to complete several complicated tasks, such as researching IT initiatives, strategy for a large insurance company, researching hospital pay rates by state and creating a Fajita recipe.

[MeleeMech]

Currently stuck in a hours long $12 loop trying to research ICU nursing pay rates. Anyone know why it gets soooo many 404 webpage errors?

[vissequ]

Do these happen all the time or just when it is trying to navigate between pages on the same website?

[MeleeMech]

Happens on 1/3 to 1/2 of the sites it tries to visit. I have not observed it navigating site pages. It can do that? My AutoGPT seems to mostly want to visit home pages.

[vissequ]

Yeah it can do that. I have noticed he sometimes gets the path wrong when he's trying to access a file. I don't really know how he does any of this. But I have instructed it to search a website for a particular link and open the page.

[vissequ]

ai_goals:

ai_name: DisasterBot
ai_role: Research the top 10 largest natural disasters and order them based on total lives lost. Create a text file named "disasters.txt" and iterate through the list of disasters inserting the iteration number, followed by disaster name, followed by amount of deaths.

---

Roles override goals. Talking to it like a coder helps.

[vissequ]

Dang I can't format here omg I'm a newb I guess

[vissequ]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoGPT/comments/12prvi4/simple_example_to_analyze_web_data_and_record_to/

[samuelbutler]

Using GPT-4 I had AutoGPT write Python code to create valid and solvable Sudoku puzzles. It generated the code, saved it to sudoku_generator.py , and then ran the script. No errors. I then had it add another function to sudoku_generator.py that saves the puzzle in a JSON file. It did, and the JSON was valid. I then had it write a function to solve Sudoku puzzles. It generated the code, saved it to sudoku_solver.py file, and then ran it. No errors. I then had it add another function to sudoku_solver.py that reads the JSON file and passes the contents to the solver function. It worked, and then this was it's final action

NEXT ACTION: COMMAND = task_complete ARGUMENTS = {'reason': 'Both the Sudoku generator and solver have been successfully implemented and tested with the generated puzzle.'}

[vissequ]

that's amazing!

[GoMightyAlgorythmGo]

Yes. It does a lot and its only 3.5t but i get your point there is potential for improvement if he can kinda keep his longterm memory and lern to work with you. Almost like when he would lern how to work with you better.

[bostone]

I've been going through the endless loops of Google search and pulling articles. I never set a max on number of searches so this thing just going and going like an energizer bunny. I tried to tell it to stop searching and it came back with SYSTEM: Human feedback: PLAN: stop research and summarize Warning: Failed to parse AI output, attempting to fix. If you see this warning frequently, it's likely that your prompt is confusing the AI. Try changing it up slightly.
And I see it goes through some interesting articles it's just it never stops
SYSTEM: Command Error: threw the following error: 'dict' object has no attribute 'replace'

[bostone]

Totally disastrous experience.

[bostone]

AI Name: Economist
Economist here!  I am at your service.
Economist is: researching economical impact of GPT-4 and LLM in general
Goal 1: Research latest published papers and articles. Ignore shallow, sensational articles
Goal 2: Pay attention to the numbers
Goal 3: Provide links to the interesting research
Goal 4: Summarize your findings in no more than 8 short paragraphs
Goal 5: Create a powerpoint or analogous presentation

[notparthreally]

Is it necessary to input a shutdown in ai goals or can it just shut down itself?

[AIZeplin]

You can just shut it down yourself. You only need an auto shutdown if you are insane and just let it run forever without ever having to accept it's actions. Otherwise you can just stop it between whatever action it's doing when you want to.

[Photon1c]

Yes, I had written a couple of basic abilities like bing_search and data frame creation, but with the new repo commit I am backpedaling to correct my broken code with the new commits.

[ntindle]

Which commit?