Joon Park: Generative Agents and Human-Computer Interaction

In episode 77 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Joon Park.

Joon is a third-year PhD student at Stanford, advised by Professors Michael Bernstein and Percy Liang. He designs, builds, and evaluates interactive systems that support new forms of human-computer interaction by leveraging state-of-the-art advances in natural language processing such as large language models. His research introduced the concept of, and the techniques for building generative agents—computational software agents that simulate believable human behavior. Joon’s work has …

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