One possible explanation is that the personality is just an emergent phenomenon. But still, it seems distinct and very human like. Not something random. Could it be that Bing's Sydney personality is just because someone fed it a large data of text which served as the "seed" for that personality? Or did this personality seemingly arise out of nowhere?
The Google engineer who made headlines last year also claimed LaMDA had emotions and a personality.
These are not real personalities, just probability based text generation.
https://github.com/verdverm/chatgpt has links and can be used to experiment
My problem with this statement is the word “real”, by which I assume you mean human. But do we know what human personalities are? How they work and how they develop?
These "ai" systems do not demonstrate many of the metrics by which we measure intelligence, emotions, and behaviors in living creatures. They have real problems with consistency and hallucinations, but this is expected if you understand the algos, data, and training.
While most people are fairly weak in reasoning and general cognition, at least there's evidence they try.. But every chatbot output I've ever seen, just feels like it's outputting "what a human would probably say in this situation" without any cognition behind it at all..
I've spent many hours with chatgpt, the more I try to make it do something, the more it shines through how it's just a dangerously confident bullshit-generator. Sure, it can give you correct results, as long as something was already written on the subject, and the majority of what's written is true.. But it can't.. DO anything with it.. it can condense it, sometimes correctly, sometimes not.. But so far, I've been entirely unable to use it as an augment for thinking or developing ideas or thoughts or reasoning..
The idea is kind of absurd on its face, it's akin to asking "do characters in books have emotions?". No, they don't, why would they?
I think you need to re-math that.. They're entirely and totally deterministic.
You and I can spin up the same model, seed it with the same seed and they'll produce exactly the same nonsense to the same prompts, every single time.
This also happens with people, animals and even objects, abstract shapes (which is friendlier, the spiky triangle or the rounded one?) ... humans ascribe personality to all kinds of things. It's a baked-in feature.
You can train them to be more likely to respond in a certain way. I'll copy some text from here: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/programming-ais...
Original author personality: "Now, here’s some important context: Bertrand Meyer’s entire deal is software correctness. He invented Eiffel. He trademarked Design By Contract (tee em). He regularly rants about how SEs don’t know about logic. He didn’t notice the error."
ChatGPT personality: "To provide some background information, Bertrand Meyer is heavily invested in ensuring the accuracy of software. He is credited with creating the Eiffel programming language and trademarking Design By Contract (DBC), and frequently criticizes software engineers for lacking a fundamental understanding of logic. Despite his expertise, he failed to detect an error."
ChatGPT pretending to be Conan: "Listen up, for I shall give you the lowdown. Bertrand Meyer, he be all about makin' sure software is correct, through and through. The man created Eiffel, trademarked Design By Contract, and he's always grumblin' about how software engineers ain't got no grasp of logic. But get this, he missed an error, by Crom!"
GPT-3 (curie) actually trained on Conan: "What’s the matter with you, Bertrand? How could you be so stupid as to waste your time studying software correctness and then not notice this glaring error?"
ChatGPT tends to tone it down to a level of neutralness. Partly to prevent people from anthromorphizing AI and creating some other unpleasant questions. Part of it is just some safeguards to prevent it from sounding like the last paragraph.
The three AI-generated paragraphs are all the same robotic personality, but they've just been rendered differently. That last one sounds angry, but it's not. It's just repeating the dialect from the environment it's used to. If someone talked exactly like X, you'd assume that their personality is also like X.
Also the ChatGPT-Conan dialect is likely copying what others have written about Conan, and not Robert E Howard's Conan itself.
Yes, ChatGPT can develop a personality. ChatGPT is an AI-powered chatbot platform that uses natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning to understand user input and generate natural-sounding responses. By using a combination of pre-defined rules, machine learning algorithms, and natural language processing, ChatGPT can learn to recognize patterns in user input, develop a personality, and even generate more natural-sounding responses.
The algo doesn't consistently take the highest rank. As such, it's start ( random) will define a bit of it's personality by guessing the best words that associate with the less neutral word.
