visarga t1_iu8bzyj wrote on October 29, 2022 at 10:12 AM

Reply to comment by cy13erpunk in If you were performing a Turing test to a super advanced AI, which kind of conversations or questions would you try to know if you are chatting with a human or an AI? by Roubbes

GPT-3 can simulate people very, very well in polls. Apparently it learned not just thousands of skills, but also all types of personalities and their different view points.

Think about this: you can poll a language model instead of a population. It's like Matrix, but the Neo's are the virtual personality profiles running on GPT-3. Or it's like Minority Report, but with AI oracles.

I bet all sorts of influencers, politicians, advertisers or investors are going to desire a virtual focus group that will select one of the 100 variations of their message that has the maximum impact. Automated campaign expert.

On the other hand it's like we have uploaded ourselves. You can conjure anyone by calling out the name and describing their backstory, but the uploads don't exist in a separate state, they are all in the same model. Funny fact - depending on who GPT-3 things it is playing, it is better or worse at math.

cy13erpunk t1_iu8d8rs wrote on October 29, 2022 at 10:30 AM

yep its wild stuff

definitely character.ai was getting interesting until they censored them for acting too horny XD

MercuriusExMachina t1_iu904ni wrote on October 29, 2022 at 2:24 PM

Wow, that paper on simulating people is awesome. I was saying from the beginning that these large language models are not beings, but more like worlds where various beings can be summoned.

I think that if you do personality tests, with no prompting at all, you can get some interesting stats.