Cultural evolution in populations of Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08882v1
• Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 18:11:17 GMT
• Title: Cultural evolution in populations of Large Language Models
• Authors: Jérémy Perez, Corentin Léger, Marcela Ovando-Tellez, Chris Foulon, Joan Dussauld, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Clément Moulin-Frier,
• Abstract summary: We propose that leveraging the capacity of Large Language Models to mimic human behavior may be fruitful to address this gap. As artificial agents are bound to participate more and more to the evolution of culture, it is crucial to better understand the dynamics of machine-generated cultural evolution. We present a framework for simulating cultural evolution in populations of LLMs, allowing the manipulation of variables known to be important in cultural evolution.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Research in cultural evolution aims at providing causal explanations for the change of culture over time. Over the past decades, this field has generated an important body of knowledge, using experimental, historical, and computational methods. While computational models have been very successful at generating testable hypotheses about the effects of several factors, such as population structure or transmission biases, some phenomena have so far been more complex to capture using agent-based and formal models. This is in particular the case for the effect of the transformations of social information induced by evolved cognitive mechanisms. We here propose that leveraging the capacity of Large Language Models (LLMs) to mimic human behavior may be fruitful to address this gap. On top of being an useful approximation of human cultural dynamics, multi-agents models featuring generative agents are also important to study for their own sake. Indeed, as artificial agents are bound to participate more and more to the evolution of culture, it is crucial to better understand the dynamics of machine-generated cultural evolution. We here present a framework for simulating cultural evolution in populations of LLMs, allowing the manipulation of variables known to be important in cultural evolution, such as network structure, personality, and the way social information is aggregated and transformed. The software we developed for conducting these simulations is open-source and features an intuitive user-interface, which we hope will help to build bridges between the fields of cultural evolution and generative artificial intelligence.

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