Posted on 01/04/2025 8:48:51 AM PST by BenLurkin
A two-hour conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) model is all it takes to make an accurate replica of someone's personality, researchers have discovered.
In a new study published Nov. 15 to the preprint database arXiv, researchers from Google and Stanford University created "simulation agents" — essentially, AI replicas — of 1,052 individuals based on two-hour interviews with each participant. These interviews were used to train a generative AI model designed to mimic human behavior.
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To create the simulation agents, the researchers conducted in-depth interviews that covered participants' life stories, values and opinions on societal issues. This enabled the AI to capture nuances that typical surveys or demographic data might miss, the researchers explained. Most importantly, the structure of these interviews gave researchers the freedom to highlight what they found most important to them personally.
Although the AI agents closely mirrored their human counterparts in many areas, their accuracy varied across tasks. They performed particularly well in replicating responses to personality surveys and determining social attitudes but were less accurate in predicting behaviors in interactive games involving economic decision-making. The researchers explained that AI typically struggles with tasks that involve social dynamics and contextual nuance.
They also acknowledged the potential for the technology to be abused. AI and "deepfake" technologies are already being used by malicious actors to deceive, impersonate, abuse and manipulate other people online. Simulation agents can also be misused, the researchers said.
However, they said the technology could let us study aspects of human behavior in ways that were previously impractical, by providing a highly controlled test environment without the ethical, logistical or interpersonal challenges of working with humans.
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The technology will be developed, because it CAN be developed.
The technology will be abused, egregiously, because it CAN be abused, egregiously.
Plan accordingly. If you know how, because I'm not sure that I do.
I’m a pretty boring guy
It would only take the AI bots 5-10 minutes.
In schumer’s case, they could simply mimic a lizard, or snake.
Whose hands are the "right hands"?
Yours? Mine? The government's? Anybody? Bueller?
IMO, there are no "right hands" for this stuff.
Frank Herbert was right.
The Age of Man has ended.
Fascinating
Not sure how they determine “accuracy” in this context.
Just the Mark of the Beast is left.
Just another reason for people to lie and be evasive.
So now we can all have a robot clone of ourselves!
It would be interesting to converse unbeknownst with AI(Ayou)
you and see if you were interesting, agreeable or a jerk.
This must already be happening - I see Chuck Schumers all the time - or they might be Mel Rothmans.
Imagine an army of Lazamatazes roaming the Earth and hitting everything.
Whaddaya know?
Give your take on social issues and your responses to personality questionnaires to a computer—and the computer can feed that information back.
I’ll save it some time,
Biden: lying asshole narcissist
Harris: grifting narcissist
Clinton: cheating narcissist
Hillary: conniving narcissist
Obama: lazy narcissist
I’am imagining a horny T rex, looking for Bertha.
85%? Cool... we share 98% of common DNA with a chimpanzee.
Say, whatever happened to that politician, Dick Armey?
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