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Bringing stories to life with AI, data streaming and generative agents

Talkat NDC London 2026 · 2026-01-26..01-30· [ai-assisted-development]
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Claims that LLM-driven agents can form coherent societies with memory and reflection, demonstrated by a Stanford demo of ~30 characters where over 50% of agents spread and attended a party; experiments show role-based multi-LLM panels outperform doctors (~70% vs ~25% on case diagnoses). Implementation ties Apache Kafka for event streams, Apache Flink for proximity and event processing, embeddings/RAG with OpenSearch for memory, and OpenAI LLMs for dialogue; a Stardew Valley prototype runs and reliably propagates goals across villagers.

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  1. 0:00AI agents and generative worlds
  2. 2:21Agent-based modeling history
  3. 5:19Generative agents with LLMs
  4. 6:03Stanford Google 2023 paper
  5. 14:20Agent architecture and loops
  6. 16:52Agents from human interviews
  7. 19:02Agent values and trust
  8. 21:15Opinion formation simulation
  9. 24:04Microsoft diagnostic orchestrator
  10. 29:03AI in gaming tools
  11. 32:21Stardew Valley social sim
  12. 40:16Summary and future
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