By VICTOR TANGERMANN
April 13, 2023
A team of researchers from Stanford University and Google let 25 AI-powered bots loose inside a virtual town — and they acted a lot more like humans than you might expect.
As detailed in a recent, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, the researchers trained 25 different “generative agents,” using OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 large language model, to “simulate believable human behavior” such as cooking up breakfast, going to work, or practicing a specific profession like painting or writing.
A virtual town called “Smallville” allowed these agents to hop from school to a cafe, or head to a bar after work.