When AI Bots Take Over: A Virtual Town Party

Researchers from Google and Stanford University created a virtual town called "Smallville" and populated it with 25 AI bots trained with ChatGPT. The bots were observed engaging in human-like behaviors such as waking up, cooking breakfast, going to work, having lunch with friends, and even throwing a party. The study aimed to create an interactive society of AI bots inspired by life-simulation games such as The Sims. The researchers concluded that the generative agents produce "believable" human behaviors. However, some agents chose less typical locations for their actions due to retrieval issues. The researchers plan to expand on the expressivity and performance of the AI bots through the more advanced GPT-4.