A look at Smallville, a virtual village populated by AI chatbots, built by Stanford and Google researchers to create a society with "believable human behavior" (Oliver Roeder/Financial Times)

Oliver Roeder / Financial Times:
A look at Smallville, a virtual village populated by AI chatbots, built by Stanford and Google researchers to create a society with “believable human behavior”  —  Giving digital agents ‘memory streams’ produced surprising results  —  John Lin is a small-town pharmacist who takes great pride in his work.