Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
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Stanford and Google's Smallville paper: 25 AI villagers plan a Valentine's Day party without human scripting. The technical contribution is the memory stream — a time-stamped log of observations scored by recency, importance, and relevance, plus a reflection loop that periodically abstracts high-importance memories into generalizations the agent can act on. This is the episodic school's founding document, and anyone building a companion, NPC, or long-horizon assistant ends up rebuilding something that looks like this, often without realizing it. Predates MemGPT by six months. Read it for the retrieval formula and the reflection loop; both still work.
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Authors:Joon Sung Park, Joseph C. O'Brien, Carrie J. Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, Michael S. Bernstein
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View PDF Abstract:Believable proxies of human behavior can empower interactive applications ranging from immersive environments to rehearsal spaces for interpersonal communication to prototyping tools. In this paper, we introduce generative agents--computational software agents that simulate believable human behavior. Generative agents wake up,…
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