Smallville is not your average AI system. Here, AI-driven agents are doing something extraordinary: they’re performing complex tasks, engaging in social interactions, and even organizing events ...

AI startup Simile offers ‘agentic twins’ modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research.

The reputation of public opinion polls is not in a good place right now—or at least it wasn’t right before the 2024 election, ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model can predict and simulate human thought and behavior with a surprising degree of accuracy. The language model, called Centaur, could help researchers improve ...

Discover 10 key areas where simulation research reveals deep behavioral insights, from aviation and surgery to AI systems, showing how controlled environments ...

Researchers say the new computational model can “simulate and predict” human behavior in any domain, something they claim will help fast-track new scientific discoveries. A team of researchers from ...

These questions are explored in the study “ Synthetic Emotions and Consciousness: Exploring Architectural Boundaries,” published in AI & Society, which investigates how AI can incorporate emotion-like ...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly able to simulate human behavior and answer online surveys and political polls, putting the reliability of survey-based research at risk. Consequences can be ...

In the coming months, I’ll be hosting a series of in-depth conversations with leading AI researchers where we’ll explore how state-of-the-art models are being applied in the real world. To kick off ...

UC Berkeley School of Public Health Professor Jodi Halpern has spent years working on the ethics of innovative technologies like gene editing and artificial intelligence. But lately Halpern, a ...

Researchers have developed a program that simulates human and animal cell behavior, creating digital models of tissues and diseases. The tool, based on mathematical rules and agent-based modeling, can ...