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Agents and simulation6 min

MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents

A population-scale simulated-user evaluation infrastructure that tests AI systems and digital products with 8.3 billion persona records and 1,010 reusable tasks.

Key finding

In a 400-trial controlled behavioral study, the assigned behavior was expressed or correctly suppressed in 91.5% of trials.

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Agents and simulation5 min

Do LLM Agents Exhibit Social Behavior?

How LLMs behave in social interactions: the role of group identity, reciprocity and chain-of-thought reasoning.

Key finding

LLMs do not act solely out of self-interest; they also lean towards social welfare and reciprocity.

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Agents and simulation5 min

LLMs and Generative Agent-Based Models for Complex Systems

The capacity of LLM agents to imitate human behaviour across social systems, and the modelling of complex social dynamics with Generative Agent-Based Models (GABMs).

Key finding

LLMs can generate human-like behaviours such as fairness, cooperation, and adherence to social norms.

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Profiles and representation5 min

LLMs’ Ways of Seeing User Personas

LLMs’ ability to perceive and interpret user personas: the impact of cultural context and the capacity to reconstruct demographic profiles.

Key finding

GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 showed strong alignment across the three India-centred personas analysed.

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Consumer preferences2 min

Analyzing Brand Perception in LLMs

Evaluating how biased LLMs are towards brands and how consistent their answers are.

Key finding

All LLMs showed consistent (transitive) brand preferences, producing the ordering Apple > Samsung > Huawei.

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Consumer preferences2 min

Can LLMs Capture Human Preferences?

The ability of LLMs to imitate human preferences and the effects of language and chain-of-thought methods.

Key finding

LLMs (GPT-3.5 and GPT-4) were more impatient than humans; GPT-4’s discount rates were far above human levels.

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