Were you using the base model or the conversational model?
The post says:
The base model has no prompt format. Remember that it’s not a conversational model or trained with instructions, so don’t expect it to generate conversational responses—the pretrained model is a great platform for further finetuning, but you probably shouldn’t driectly use it out of the box.
I've tried AutoGPT agents about 10 times for tasks that seem like they'd be a good fit. That meaning they need to scrape current data, but otherwise they'd be possible for a person willing to put in some time to combine data sources.
An example is "create a table showing the current ratio of rental/sales prices (on a per square foot basis) for residential properties in the 10 most populated counties in Colorado."
I'm still yet to get a reasonable result from trying this.
With all the people that book inspired to get into computing, and the sum total of what we've built, I bet Ahl couldn't have guessed what an impact that book would have.
Funny you should say that. Because traditional compilers have been incredibly useful.