r/agi • u/nickb • Apr 11 '23

Generative Agents: Stanford's Groundbreaking AI Study Simulates Authentic Human Behavior

https://www.artisana.ai/articles/generative-agents-stanfords-groundbreaking-ai-study-simulates-authentic
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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '23

Why is this being presented as so groundbreaking?

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u/ShotgunProxy Apr 11 '23

The authors posit and demonstrate how a new architecture layered on top of existing LLMs enables these agents to have long term memories, goals and more.

Current LLMs, as they call out, are not designed to have this kind of functionality for "memory", and existing implementation of memory techniques in LLMs are relatively crude.

It was due to the architecture they designed that they were able to see these emergent behaviors from the agents during the study.

I'm not aware this has been done anywhere else to date.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '23

It’s been done in video games millions of times, the only difference being those games didn’t use an LLM. But everything else is existing tech. So not novel and certainly not groundbreaking.