ChatGPT agents are better at simulated role-play than humans

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AI agents powered by ChatGPT showed human-like planning and behaviour in simulations, demonstrating social behaviour such as organising a Valentine's Day party

By Jeremy Hsu

At the beginning of the simulation, one agent is initialized with an intent to organize a Valentine?s Day party. Despite many possible points of failure in the ensuring chain of events?agents might not act on that intent, might not remember to tell others, might not remember to show up?the Valentine?s Day party does in fact occur, with a number of agents gathering and interacting.

ChatGPT-powered AIs given long-term memory capabilities and personal motivations could role-play characters in a simulated town more believably than human crowd workers.

“This idea of creating believable agents that actually exhibit this behaviour – that give the illusion of realism – was something that we as an academic field wanted and have been talking about for the last four decades,” says Joon Sung Park at Stanford University in California.

Park and his colleagues from Stanford and Google developed and tested AI agents …

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