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Are AI chatbot ‘personalities’ in the eye of the beholder?

That question exposes a rift in the research community about the purpose of chatbots

Researchers prompt chatbots to fill out standard personality tests.

Chatbots’ training imbues them with personality traits, some researchers suspect. To find out, researchers are prompting the bots to answer questions from standard personality tests, as shown here.

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By Sujata Gupta

When Yang “Sunny” Lu asked OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 to calculate 1-plus-1 a few years ago, the chatbot, not surprisingly, told her the answer was 2.