Summary of On the Decision-making Abilities in Role-playing Using Large Language Models, by Chenglei Shen and Guofu Xie and Xiao Zhang and Jun Xu
On the Decision-Making Abilities in Role-Playing using Large Language Models
by Chenglei Shen, Guofu Xie, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Feb 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 Medium Difficulty Summary: This paper investigates the decision-making capabilities of large language models (LLMs) after role-playing tasks, aiming to validate the effectiveness of role-playing and provide metrics for enhancing LLMs’ decision-making abilities. To achieve this, the authors use LLMs to generate virtual role descriptions based on the 16 personality types of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). They then design quantitative operations to evaluate LLMs’ post-role-playing decision-making from four aspects: adaptability, exploration-exploitation trade-off ability, reasoning ability, and safety. The results show a robust correlation between LLMs’ decision-making abilities and the roles they emulate, demonstrating that LLMs can effectively impersonate varied roles while embodying their genuine sociological characteristics. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Low Difficulty Summary: This paper is about how well computers can make decisions after pretending to be someone else. The researchers want to see if these computers, called large language models (LLMs), are good at making decisions when they’re pretending to be different people with different personalities. They use the LLMs to create fake descriptions of these people and then test the computers’ decision-making skills in different situations. The results show that the computers can make good decisions when they’re pretending to be someone else, and this is important because it could help us use computers more effectively in real-life scenarios. |
