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Google Researchers Can Create an AI That Thinks a Lot Like You After Just a Two-Hour Interview. After an average of 6,000 words, Stanford and Google researchers can spin up a generative agent that will act a lot like you do.


After an average of 6,000 words, Stanford and Google researchers can spin up a generative agent that will act a lot like you do.

The study, titled Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People, is a joint venture between Stanford and scientists working for Google’s DeepMind AI research lab. Each interview began with the participants reading the first two lines of The Great Gatsby(“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. Not because I don’t want to see the ineffable human spirit reduced to a spreadsheet, but because I know this kind of tech will be used for ill. We’ve already seen stupider LLMs trained on public recordings tricking grandmothers into giving away bank information to an AI relative after a quick phone call.

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