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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Spontaneous Emergence of Agent Individuality Through Social Interactions in Large Language Model-Based Communities.

Ryosuke Takata, Atsushi Masumori, Takashi Ikegami

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ryosuke TakataGraduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.ORCID 0009-0008-0735-0739
Atsushi MasumoriGraduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-7150-0684
Takashi IkegamiGraduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-2850-4844

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP21H04885Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP24KJ0753
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We study the emergence of agency from scratch by using Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents. In previous studies of LLM-based agents, each agent's characteristics, including personality and memory, have traditionally been predefined. We focused on how individuality, such as behavior, personality, and memory, can be differentiated from an undifferentiated state. The present LLM agents engage in cooperative communication within a group simulation, exchanging context-based messages in natural language. By analyzing this multi-agent simulation, we report valuable new insights into how social norms, cooperation, and personality traits can emerge spontaneously. This paper demonstrates that autonomously interacting LLM-powered agents generate hallucinations and hashtags to sustain communication, which, in turn, increases the diversity of words within their interactions. Each agent's emotions shift through communication, and as they form communities, the personalities of the agents emerge and evolve accordingly. This computational modeling approach and its findings will provide a new method for analyzing collective artificial intelligence.

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agent-based simulationcollective intelligencelarge language model

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PMID39766721
PMCPMC11675631

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