I’ve been thinking about this question for a while today, and I’ve had a hard time coming up with a good concrete answer, even though I feel quite confident in my assertion. My best bet for an answer is that I just haven’t seen a technically legible reason that they might be able to do it.
But that’s not a very satisfying argument, so I’ll try to give an explanation. Naive personality research is super duper easy and I bet you could already set up a system so GPT-3 could do it, as long as you are willing to pay it a bunch of money for participants. A lot of personality research can be done just by word-associations, which GPT-3 is good at.
The trouble comes when you want to do anything deeper. If you want to know how personality actually works, you need to think of many levels at once; how people behave, how that behavior translates into your measurement method, etc.. This is not simply an extrapolation of the word-association game, and I have not seen any AI methods that are likely capable of that yet. The situation is further worsened by the fact that there is a lot of text on the internet that describes naive methods, so it would likely jump on that instead.
I’ve been thinking about this question for a while today, and I’ve had a hard time coming up with a good concrete answer, even though I feel quite confident in my assertion. My best bet for an answer is that I just haven’t seen a technically legible reason that they might be able to do it.
But that’s not a very satisfying argument, so I’ll try to give an explanation. Naive personality research is super duper easy and I bet you could already set up a system so GPT-3 could do it, as long as you are willing to pay it a bunch of money for participants. A lot of personality research can be done just by word-associations, which GPT-3 is good at.
The trouble comes when you want to do anything deeper. If you want to know how personality actually works, you need to think of many levels at once; how people behave, how that behavior translates into your measurement method, etc.. This is not simply an extrapolation of the word-association game, and I have not seen any AI methods that are likely capable of that yet. The situation is further worsened by the fact that there is a lot of text on the internet that describes naive methods, so it would likely jump on that instead.