On the Psychology of GPT-4: Moderately anxious, slightly masculine, honest, and humble
Adrita Barua, Gary Brase, Ke Dong, Pascal Hitzler, Eugene Vasserman
TL;DR
This study rigorously tests GPT-4's psychological traits, revealing it to be honest, humble, slightly masculine, moderately anxious, and possessing above-average verbal cognitive reflection and human-like numerical skills.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive psychometric profile of GPT-4, highlighting its psychological similarities and differences with humans based on rigorous testing.
Findings
GPT-4 is more honest and humble than the average human.
It exhibits slight masculinity and ambivalent sexism.
It has above-average verbal cognitive reflection abilities.
Abstract
We subject GPT-4 to a number of rigorous psychometric tests and analyze the results. We find that, compared to the average human, GPT-4 tends to show more honesty and humility, and less machiavellianism and narcissism. It sometimes exhibits ambivalent sexism, leans slightly toward masculinity, is moderately anxious but mostly not depressive (but not always). It shows human-average numerical literacy and has cognitive reflection abilities that are above human average for verbal tasks.
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Taxonomy
TopicsHealthcare cost, quality, practices · Health and Medical Research Impacts · Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
MethodsAttention Is All You Need · Absolute Position Encodings · Linear Layer · Byte Pair Encoding · Multi-Head Attention · Adam · Residual Connection · Layer Normalization · Dense Connections · Position-Wise Feed-Forward Layer