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Every Frontier AI Is INTJ

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Re: Every Frontier AI Is INTJ

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Post by TheJCDenton »

Interesting article, but MBTI is not just contested, the concensus since the 90s is that MBTI is pseudoscience [1][2][3][4][5], so it's nearly 40 years.

Would have been interesting to test against the Big five instead !

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20061206025148/http://www.indian...

[3] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/014920639602200103

[4] https://aps.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1742-9544....

[5] https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personali...

Re: Every Frontier AI Is INTJ

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Post by efavdb »

TheJCDenton wrote: post #4

Interesting article, but MBTI is not just contested, the concensus since the 90s is that MBTI is pseudoscience [1][2][3][4][5], so it's nearly 40 years. Would have been interesting to test against the Big five instead ! [1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20061206025148/http://www.indian... [3] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/014920639602200103…

I’ve noticed that people in my field tend to have relatively similar personalities and relatively similar MB categories (close to INTJ). That combo is relatively rare within the broader population. Given this consistency I don’t think we can say it’s pseudoscience in a strong sense.

Re: Every Frontier AI Is INTJ

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Post by gobdovan »

TheJCDenton wrote: post #4

Interesting article, but MBTI is not just contested, the concensus since the 90s is that MBTI is pseudoscience [1][2][3][4][5], so it's nearly 40 years. Would have been interesting to test against the Big five instead ! [1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20061206025148/http://www.indian... [3] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/014920639602200103…

Even if pseudoscience, it seems from the article that results almost always came back the same. If all AI models claimed their spiritual astrological sign is Libra, I'd still find it interesting enough to check out.

So, I tried it too, ChatGPT came back INTJ. But Gemini Flash 3.1 claims ENFJ once, INTP another time... Maybe OP could share their prompt and we'd understand why the results were so consistent.

Re: Every Frontier AI Is INTJ

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Post by tristanj »

throwaway81523 wrote: post #5

Is that because they're trained on the navel gazing posts of reddit nerds?

Probably because the majority of all literature ever written was produced by introverts, even though introverts are a slight minority of the population. INTJ writings will be overrepresented in the AI training dataset.
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