In the Otherland series of cyberpunk novels Beezle Bug is the virtual assistant of Orlando Gardiner, one of the main characters. Originally a kids' toy, it was upgraded many times until it's almost as sentient as a real person. Beezle Bug has two different forms of appearance. In the virtual world it appears as a creature with many arms and legs. It can also download itself into a spider-like toy robot in the physical world.
Like its fictional counterpart our Beezle Bug agent starts as a limited toy project and will hopefully grow into a useful tool over time. Beezle is running completely locally and requires a running llama.cpp server.
With Beezle Bug we want to explore agentive behaviours like
- Autonomy
- Open-Endedness
- Cooperation
- Self Improvement
Beezle Bug is an autonomous and proactive agent.
What's working ?
- Run continuously every n seconds
- Tool Use
- Memory Management
- Planning
To be able to work on several things at the same time without confusing itself, Beezle Bug can clone itself and give its clone specific instructions.
What's working ?
- Create/start/stop/destroy a clone of itself
- Delegate tasks to clone
- Specialize the clone for specific tasks
What's working ?
- Create new compound tools
- Create new primitive tools
- Fine tune self on collected data
There is a web chat example here.
The example in the image below uses Gemma2-9B. It shows nicely how the agent can execute multiple actions without having to be prompted each time.
This is pretty solid for such a small model.
