This is what happened when 25 AI avatars were let loose in a virtual town

• Researchers let 25 AI avatars loose in a virtual town.
• The avatars were able to make daily schedules, talk politics, go on dates, and even plan a party.
• AI expert Michael Wooldridge told Insider the findings are "baby steps" towards AGI. 

What happens when you let 25 AI agents loose in a virtual city? A recent study set out to see what they'd get up to — and turns out they aren't all that different than real people.

A team of researchers from Stanford University and Google conducted an experiment to see how AI generative avatars can "simulate believable human behavior" such as memory using large language models.