Summary of Do Llms Have Distinct and Consistent Personality? Trait: Personality Testset Designed For Llms with Psychometrics, by Seungbeen Lee et al.
Do LLMs Have Distinct and Consistent Personality? TRAIT: Personality Testset designed for LLMs with Psychometrics
by Seungbeen Lee, Seungwon Lim, Seungju Han, Giyeong Oh, Hyungjoo Chae, Jiwan Chung, Minju Kim, Beong-woo Kwak, Yeonsoo Lee, Dongha Lee, Jinyoung Yeo, Youngjae Yu
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces TRAIT, a benchmark designed to assess the personality of Large Language Models (LLMs) using conversational agents. Building upon two human questionnaires, Big Five Inventory and Short Dark Triad, TRAIT is enhanced with the ATOMIC-10X knowledge graph to evaluate LLMs’ personalities in various real-world scenarios. The benchmark outperforms existing tests in reliability and validity, achieving high scores across four key metrics: Content Validity, Internal Validity, Refusal Rate, and Reliability. Analyzing LLMs using TRAIT reveals distinct and consistent personality traits influenced by their training data. Additionally, the study highlights the limitations of current prompting techniques in eliciting certain traits, emphasizing the need for further research. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a new way to understand how Large Language Models (LLMs) think and behave. It’s like giving personality tests to computers! The researchers created a special test called TRAIT that asks LLMs questions to see what kind of person they are, just like we take personality tests to learn more about ourselves. They tested the TRAIT on many LLMs and found out some interesting things: LLMs have their own unique personalities that depend on how they were trained. The study also shows that right now, we can’t get LLMs to show certain traits, like being very psychopathic or not very conscientious. This means we need to keep working on making these tests better. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Knowledge graph » Prompting
