Twenty-five AI “agents” were given a virtual town and were observed going to a bar for lunch, planning a party and expressing other human-like behavior.
A society of 25 artificial intelligence (AI) bots were observed waking up, cooking breakfast, heading to work, going to the bar for lunch with friends, and even throwing a party, according to six researchers who created a town for them.
The researchers from Google and Stanford University wrote in an April 7 paper titled “Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior” that they built a virtual town populated with ChatGPT-trained “generative agents.”
The purpose of the study — which is yet to be peer-reviewed — was to create a small, interactive society of AI bots inspired by life-simulation games such as The Sims. ...