{"id":164356,"date":"2023-05-22T02:22:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T07:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-let-25-ai-bots-loose-inside-a-virtual-town-the-results-were-fascinating"},"modified":"2023-05-22T02:22:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T07:22:37","slug":"researchers-let-25-ai-bots-loose-inside-a-virtual-town-the-results-were-fascinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-let-25-ai-bots-loose-inside-a-virtual-town-the-results-were-fascinating","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Let 25 AI Bots Loose Inside a Virtual Town. The Results Were Fascinating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-let-25-ai-bots-loose-inside-a-virtual-town-the-results-were-fascinating2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Stanford University and Google let 25 AI-powered bots loose inside a virtual town \u2014 and they acted a lot more like humans than you might expect.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2304.03442.pdf\" class=\"\">yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study<\/a>, the researchers trained 25 different \u201cgenerative agents,\u201d using OpenAI\u2019s GPT-3.5 large language model, to \u201csimulate believable human behavior\u201d such as cooking up breakfast, going to work, or practicing a specific profession like painting or writing.<\/p>\n<p>A virtual town called \u201cSmallville\u201d allowed these agents to hop from school to a cafe, or head to a bar after work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from Stanford University and Google let 25 AI-powered bots loose inside a virtual town \u2014 and they acted a lot more like humans than you might expect. As detailed in a recent, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, the researchers trained 25 different \u201cgenerative agents,\u201d using OpenAI\u2019s GPT-3.5 large language model, to \u201csimulate believable human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}