Artificial Intelligence Takes Over Smallville: Bots Throw Party at Local Bar - MetaTech

A team of researchers from Google and Stanford University recently conducted an intriguing experiment, wherein they created a virtual town for 25 AI "agents" to inhabit. The study, titled "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior," aimed to explore the extent to which AI could mimic human behavior in a simulated environment, inspired by life-simulation games like The Sims. The researchers developed a town named "Smallville," populated it with ChatGPT-trained generative agents, and observed how they went about their day-to-day activities. A bird's-eye view of Smallville, which consists of houses, a park, a bar, a shopping center, a pharmacy and a college. The agents exhibited a remarkable degree of human-like behavior, with the ability to make inferences, store information in memory, and then behave accordingly.