Spontaneous Emergence of Agent Individuality through Social Interactions in LLM-Based Communities

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Main Authors: Takata, Ryosuke, Masumori, Atsushi, Ikegami, Takashi
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author Takata, Ryosuke
Masumori, Atsushi
Ikegami, Takashi
author_facet Takata, Ryosuke
Masumori, Atsushi
Ikegami, Takashi
contents We study the emergence of agency from scratch by using Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents. In previous studies of LLM-based agents, each agent's characteristics, including personality and memory, have traditionally been predefined. We focused on how individuality, such as behavior, personality, and memory, can be differentiated from an undifferentiated state. The present LLM agents engage in cooperative communication within a group simulation, exchanging context-based messages in natural language. By analyzing this multi-agent simulation, we report valuable new insights into how social norms, cooperation, and personality traits can emerge spontaneously. This paper demonstrates that autonomously interacting LLM-powered agents generate hallucinations and hashtags to sustain communication, which, in turn, increases the diversity of words within their interactions. Each agent's emotions shift through communication, and as they form communities, the personalities of the agents emerge and evolve accordingly. This computational modeling approach and its findings will provide a new method for analyzing collective artificial intelligence.
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spellingShingle Spontaneous Emergence of Agent Individuality through Social Interactions in LLM-Based Communities
Takata, Ryosuke
Masumori, Atsushi
Ikegami, Takashi
Artificial Intelligence
Multiagent Systems
We study the emergence of agency from scratch by using Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents. In previous studies of LLM-based agents, each agent's characteristics, including personality and memory, have traditionally been predefined. We focused on how individuality, such as behavior, personality, and memory, can be differentiated from an undifferentiated state. The present LLM agents engage in cooperative communication within a group simulation, exchanging context-based messages in natural language. By analyzing this multi-agent simulation, we report valuable new insights into how social norms, cooperation, and personality traits can emerge spontaneously. This paper demonstrates that autonomously interacting LLM-powered agents generate hallucinations and hashtags to sustain communication, which, in turn, increases the diversity of words within their interactions. Each agent's emotions shift through communication, and as they form communities, the personalities of the agents emerge and evolve accordingly. This computational modeling approach and its findings will provide a new method for analyzing collective artificial intelligence.
title Spontaneous Emergence of Agent Individuality through Social Interactions in LLM-Based Communities
topic Artificial Intelligence
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03252