🇨🇳 China just built a virtual society with 1 BILLION AI people.
Researchers built Light Society, a system where AI agents have personalities, memories, beliefs and human-like behavior.
Instead of using one giant model for everyone, it combines powerful LLMs with smaller models to make the simulation efficient enough to run over 1 billion agents.
They gave the agents real-world demographic data, then simulated things like trust, opinions and information spreading.
And the results reportedly looked surprisingly similar to real human social behavior.
Now imagine running a virtual population to test:
🗳 Elections
📉 Market panic
🔥 Misinformation
🚨 Crisis reactions
🌐 Global trends
We’re not at “predict the future” yet, but AI just took another step toward simulating society itself. 🤯
Source.
Researchers built Light Society, a system where AI agents have personalities, memories, beliefs and human-like behavior.
Instead of using one giant model for everyone, it combines powerful LLMs with smaller models to make the simulation efficient enough to run over 1 billion agents.
They gave the agents real-world demographic data, then simulated things like trust, opinions and information spreading.
And the results reportedly looked surprisingly similar to real human social behavior.
Now imagine running a virtual population to test:
🗳 Elections
📉 Market panic
🔥 Misinformation
🚨 Crisis reactions
🌐 Global trends
We’re not at “predict the future” yet, but AI just took another step toward simulating society itself. 🤯
Source.