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What Happens When You Put 25 ChatGPT-Backed Agents Into an RPG Town?
“Generative agents wake up, cook breakfast, and head to work; artists paint, while authors write; they form opinions, notice each other, and initiate conversations; they remember and reflect on days past as they plan the next day,” write the researchers in their paper… To pull this off, the researchers relied heavily on a large language model for social interaction, specifically the ChatGPT API. In addition, they created an architecture that simulates minds with memories and experiences, then let the agents loose in the world to interact…. To study the group of AI agents, the researchers set up a virtual town called “Smallville,” which includes houses, a cafe, a park, and a grocery store…. Interestingly, when the characters in the sandbox world encounter each other, they often speak to each other using natural language provided by ChatGPT. In this way, they exchange information and form memories about their daily lives.
When the researchers combined these basic ingredients together and ran the simulation, interesting things began to happen. In the paper, the researchers list three emergent behaviors resulting from the simulation. None of these were pre-programmed but rather resulted from the interactions between the agents. These included “information diffusion” (agents telling each other information and having it spread socially among the town), “relationship memory” (memory of past interactions between agents and mentioning those earlier events later), and “coordination” (planning and attending a Valentine’s Day party together with other agents)…. “Starting with only a single user-specified notion that one agent wants to throw a Valentine’s Day party,” the researchers write, “the agents autonomously spread invitations to the party over the next two days, make new acquaintances, ask each other out on dates to the party, and coordinate to show up for the party together at the right time….”
To get a look at Smallville, the researchers have posted an interactive demo online through a special website, but it’s a “pre-computed replay of a simulation” described in the paper and not a real-time simulation. Still, it gives a good illustration of the richness of social interactions that can emerge from an apparently simple virtual world running in a computer sandbox.
Interstingly, the researchers hired human evaluators to gauge how well the AI agents produced believable responses — and discovered they were more believable than when supplied their own responses.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Baron_Yam for sharing the article.
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Destiny 2: Lightfall’s Best Story Happens After The Campaign, Here’s Everything We’ve Learned
Although the Witness and its Pyramid Fleet arrived in our Solar System and entered Earth’s orbit in the Destiny 2: Lightfall campaign, the sudden importance placed on an object called the Veil meant the fight instead took place in a futuristic city on Neptune. Lightfall has received criticism for its vague storytelling; despite nearing the end of the Light and Darkness saga, it left the Veil, the Witness’s motives, and the metaphysical kaleidoscope portal on the Traveler shrouded in mystery.
Bungie took the unusual step of promising more details on the Veil will be revealed as part of a mission during Season of Deep that will be available to all Lightfall owners, but for now, we’re left with many questions. However, several other story threads found through post-campaign quests provide further context and interesting new story threads. Here are some key details we’ve learned after wrapping up Lightfall’s campaign.
The Vex Network has its secrets
Players last ventured into the Vex Network with the help of Misraaks during Season of the Splicer to end the Endless Night in the Last City. Now, we once again hop into the Vex Network because of its connection to the CloudArk, which holds together Neomuna and where the Neomuni have uploaded their consciousnesses while in a cryogenic state.
‘What happens if Kirby swallows a hot man?’ His directors give answers
Kirby game directors answer our strangest, longest-held questions
What happens if the US government bans TikTok
Here’s everything you need to know about a potential ban