Egor

Product engineer @societies_ai
Posting curious design & product tidbits and misuing our state of the art human behaviour simulation technology for likes on X

[Egor @egorvert]

I made Plague Inc. but for ideas.

You can sow any idea in a simulated persona's mind and watch how it spreads through the city

The goal: get as much of the city to adopt and believe in your idea as possible

Compete with your friends for the top spot on the leaderboard. Link ↓

[Egor @egorvert]

@societies_ai Good to see what the ML team has been up to

[Felix Wallis @WallisFelix]

Increadibly exicted to announce Rothko to the world! For me, it’s been a labour of love that started three years ago when I co-authored the first large-scale paper on AI swarms with @james_k_he.

During this research, James and I noticed that when language models interact at scale, they mimic fundamental characteristics of human collective behaviour without being explicitly instructed to do so.

These findings suggested something exciting: pre-training bakes an inherent understanding of human group dynamics into language models.

Despite our excitement, we also noticed that RLHF works against LLMs’ emergent simulation capabilities, compressing the nuances we observe in human behaviour and pulling models towards a population mode.

Hence, we faced an interesting question: can we use and enhance language models’ pretraining knowledge to accurately simulate human societies?

Rothko represents the culmination of these efforts. It works like a decision model trained on signals we’ve extracted from a large corpus of human behavioural observations, including anonymised social media information, transaction histories, unstructured interviews, and more.

By getting rid of RLHF post-training, moving from the domain of natural language to the domain of decisions, and training on behavioural data, we’ve seen that Rothko dramatically outperforms SOTA LLMs at accurately simulating individuals and groups.

This finding underpins our work at AS and the value our simulation platform provides to clients.

Looking ahead, I see a world where large decision models like Rothko play a fundamental role in scaling innovation, protecting sovereignty, and aligning AI swarms with human values.

I find these applications incredibly exciting, and I look forward to scaling Rothko’s capabilities with the awesome team at AS!

[Egor @egorvert]

I think the first one is actually the most solvable. imo it will be a snowball of a few people seeing how helpful agents can be for menial irl tasks like sorting out bills, keeping track of personal finances, handling todo lists, etc. and then it will spread by word of mouth. the main caveat is that useful features have to outweigh the distrust to the point where someone can just say fuck it this is worth saving hours of my time / saving lots of money

[Artificial Societies @societies_ai]

Introducing Rothko, a foundation model of human behaviour designed from the ground up to simulate the world’s most consequential decisions.

Rothko is the result of over three years of frontier research at the intersection of behavioural science and machine learning.

We’re only just starting to uncover the model’s value across domains ranging from market research to AI safety and swarm alignment.

[Egor @egorvert]

@emilkowalski Fuck I got baited xd

[Egor @egorvert]

@kunchenguid The fact they don't have little guys is enough differentiation

[Egor @egorvert]

Too many people were complaining that the guardrails were too strict.

So I loosened them up a bit. Go wild. See how far your idea travels.

[Artificial Societies @societies_ai]

Can your idea become the talk of the town?

We modelled how thoughts and ideas spread in human societies by putting 2,721 simulated personas representing the US general population in an artificial city. Each persona has its own schedule, beliefs, and social circle.

Sow an idea in any persona’s mind, watch it take hold and go viral, or see it fizzle out if no one takes interest in it.

Compete with your friends and colleagues to see whose idea can win over the most adopters, get a high score and put your name on the leaderboard. Link below.

[James He @james_k_he]

This is a social scientist's wet dream.

[Egor @egorvert]

@0x_iroh Sounds like a very novel and unexolored idea, excited to see how it goes!

[Egor @egorvert]

@tinybluedev @societies_ai Holy larp

[Egor @egorvert]

Try to top the leaderboard https://t.co/rnJ2WRV6g0

[Egor @egorvert]

I made Plague Inc. but for ideas.

You can sow any idea in a simulated persona's mind and watch how it spreads through the city

The goal: get as much of the city to adopt and believe in your idea as possible

Compete with your friends for the top spot on the leaderboard. Link ↓

[Artificial Societies @societies_ai]

Can your idea become the talk of the town?

We modelled how thoughts and ideas spread in human societies by putting 2,721 simulated personas representing the US general population in an artificial city. Each persona has its own schedule, beliefs, and social circle.

Sow an idea in any persona’s mind, watch it take hold and go viral, or see it fizzle out if no one takes interest in it.

Compete with your friends and colleagues to see whose idea can win over the most adopters, get a high score and put your name on the leaderboard. Link below.

[Egor @egorvert]

@ktoya_me @_coenen this is super cool!

[Egor @egorvert]

@weswinder clearly it learnt from the best

[Egor @egorvert]

Calendar component evolution for our new upcoming simulation 👀

Played around with some inspo from my favourite games.

[Egor @egorvert]

@nitishkmrk thumbs up is too small, needs to go bigger

[Artificial Societies @societies_ai]

Artificial Societies is sponsoring POLITICO London Playbook.

The Budget is coming next week, and the measures under discussion will land differently with various audiences. Every day this week, we’re simulating how those audiences will react to potential Budget measures.

Today, we’ve simulated how global institutional investors will react to the Budget. What do they think will happen to gilts? Find out below.

[Egor @egorvert]

@thsottiaux @steipete Can you guys just make dots faster