In this presentation, Dr. Jonathan Dodge presents Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior, by Park et al. The authors create a sandbox environment resembling The Sims, with agents interacting with each other. They find generative agents could simulate human behavior in a way humans found believable, such as waking up, cooking breakfast, and forming opinions. They use a large language model and a database to store experiences, and use information retrieval to avoid computational and cost issues.
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