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.
Curious if you have some technically legible reason for this.
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.