An experiment to use generative artificial intelligence to create believable human behaviour has shown surprising results in Smallville, where chatbots “live” and attempt to build a community, say the Financial Times’ Oliver Roeder.
BROOKLYN: John Lin is a small-town pharmacist who takes great pride in his work. He enjoys helping people and making it easy for his customers to get their medicine. He lives with his wife, a college professor, and their son, a student of music theory. He is active in local politics and friendly with his neighbour. John Lin thinks his neighbour is a kind man. And he loves his family very much.. He “lives” in a digital hamlet called Smallville alongside two dozen other chatbots.
A team of computer scientists from Stanford and Google created Smallville, a digital community inspired by video game The Sims, to simulate “believable human behaviour”. Aesthetically, Smallville is a cute, cartoonish place inspired by The Sims video games. It has houses, shops, a cafe, a bar, a park, a college and a dorm. The buildings have rooms and the rooms have appliances and so on.
From these lives emerges behaviour beyond the dictates of any Stanford programmer: The agents diffuse information, form relationships and co-ordinate. They wake, cook breakfast, go to work and school, shop, socialise, run for mayor and discuss mayoral candidates.
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