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Re: Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript

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Post by CharlesW »

jmorgan wrote: post #3

If you haven't yet checked out the Generative Agents project referenced by OP, definitely give it a look, it's open source: https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents Over the weekend Lance Martin got it working with local models using llama.cpp and ollama.ai which saves $ on longer sims since all inference happens locally https://twitter.com/RLanceMartin/status/1690829179615657985 . It's neat how the AI a…

Little Computer People 2 anyone? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Computer_People

Re: Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript

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Post by lacrimacida »

jameshart wrote: post #10
xwdv wrote: post #7

What does it mean for them to “live”? Are there certain goals they try to accomplish? Find food? A mate? Build families?

We've been studying humans for thousands of years and are no closer to answering those questions for them. Why do you think we'd have an answer for these newfangled AI agents?

Responding to a question with another question doesn’t help the op who seemed to be genuinely asking an honest question about this AI simulation that this while thread is referring to. And second, I think we do know a whole lot more about ourselves than we do about AI if your question wasn’t supposed to be rhetorical
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