This is amazing research. The authors say they were inspired by The Sims, but the simulation they created is arguably more advanced than that game despite having a simpler architecture. It would be interesting to compare the results of social and economic experiments involving generative agents with those of humans. In addition, I wonder what would happen if we were to scale up the simulation to hundreds of thousands or millions of generative agents. Can a large-scale simulation accurately model the social dynamics of human civilizations? That would be a very powerful tool indeed. The political bias built into ChatGPT would probably hamper such a simulation, but less-biased AI could (presumably) be substituted into the same architecture.
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