simulation
Simulating People with Language Models Lesson
Simulating people with language models means using a model to stand in for a human respondent or a whole population, predicting how they would answer a survey, react to a product, or behave in a social setting, and it works well enough that companies now sell it while failing in specific, well-documented ways.
Simile Tool
An enterprise product built on the generative-agent research line, pitching a foundation model for human behavior that simulates decisions at scale for launches, pricing, and campaign testing. The company says it validates against real humans weekly with more than 7,000 evaluations and attaches a predicted-confidence label to each result.
NandaTown Tool
An open agent-society simulation from MIT's NANDA project, used as the evaluation environment for recent work on covert agent coordination. Supports multi-agent scenarios such as auctions with up to a hundred participants, with documentation for building your own.