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ai will need personality (pdf)

April 2, 2025

source: arxiv.org

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

AI will need personality (pdf). MIT researchers gave AI personality traits (OCEAN), then paired them with humans, who were also rated on OCEAN traits. You get fun results, like a neurotic AI making less copy edits with an agreeable human. The implications, of course, is that AI will start to get more and more personalised. And if you’re prompting, you might want to prompt personality too.

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