Introducing Simile.
Simulating human behavior is one of the most consequential and technically difficult problems of our time.
We raised $100M from Index, Hanabi, A* BCV, @karpathy@drfeifei@adamdangelo@rauchg@scottbelsky among others.
Simulating human behavior with AI agents promises a testbed for policy and the social sciences. We interviewed 1,000 people for two hours each to create generative agents of them. These agents replicate their source individualsโ attitudes and behaviors. ๐งตarxiv.org/abs/2411.10109
My TED Talk from October 2023 is live! ted.com/talks/joon_sunโฆ
I talked about generative agents, and what their power to simulate ourselves and our societies will mean for us in the future. Here is the message I ended with: ๐งต
I am honored to be named a 2022 Microsoft Research PhD Fellow!
Thank you so much to my advisers, @msbernst and @percyliang, as well as @merrierm, @kkarahal, and everyone who shaped me as a researcher. I'm really excited to continue exploring the intersection of HCI and AI!
At Microsoft Research, we aim to empower the next generation of computing related research talent. Today, we're thrilled to announce and congratulate this year's Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship recipients from around the world. Meet the 2022 recipients: aka.ms/phdfellowship
On that note, Iโm thrilled to share that I will be joining @Stanford to pursue my PhD in computer science this fall!! Iโm really looking forward to working with @msbernst and all the colleagues in the department (and seeing everyone in the Bay Area)!
We were also really excited to offer this course on AI Agents and Simulation as part of our CS curriculum at Stanford for the first time this quarter!
Thank you @johnjhorton for your kind words and inspiring work! And a shoutout to my amazing TAs, @cqzou and @HelenasResearch!
For those interested in generative agents (aka the Stanford Smallville experiment), I will be speaking at #TEDAI2023 this October about simulating human behavior using LLMs and other foundation models, and what this will enable us to do.
Our new research estimates that *one in twenty* comments on Reddit are violations of its norms: anti-social behaviors that most subreddits try to moderate. But almost none are moderated.
๐งต on my upcoming #cscw2022 paper w/ @josephseering and @msbernst: arxiv.org/abs/2208.13094
Hi #CHI2022!! I'm flying to New Orleans tomorrow to join everyone for the in-person conference! Looking forward to catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. Please say hi if you want to chat about HCIxNLP, social computing systems, or anything else! See you there :)
I will be presenting generative agents during the "Beyond Words" session (the first session starting at 11am) today at #UIST2023. Hope many of you will be able to join our session!
Meanwhile, here is our demo simulation of 25 agents in Smallville: reverie.herokuapp.com/arXiv_Demo/