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A model of human behavior, and new ways to measure how faithfully AI can simulate people.

The first step in helping someone is understanding them; this is true for both humans & AI. People are unpredictable, behave differently in different social contexts, and change over time. Any model of human behavior needs to represent that variation. Today, we are releasing Persimmon, a large-scale model designed to realistically simulate how people behave in multi-turn, multi-user chat settings. This kind of model is often referred to as a "user model." Our user model is built to capture the distribution of human behavior within one person’s responses as well as across people, situations,…

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