As AI-bots continue to gain popularity due to their human-like traits and the intimacy they offer to users, their societal impact inevitably expands. This leads to the rising necessity for comprehensive studies to fully understand AI-bots and reveal their potential opportunities, drawbacks, and overall societal impact. With that in mind, this research conducted an extensive investigation into ChatGPT3, a renowned AI bot, aiming to assess the temporal reliability of its personality profile. Psychological questionnaires were administered to the chatbot on two separate occasions, followed by a comparison of the responses to human normative data. The findings revealed varying levels of agreement in chatbot's responses over time, with some scales displaying excellent agreement while others demonstrated poor agreement. Overall, Davinci-003 displayed a socially desirable and pro-social personality profile, particularly in the domain of communion. However, the underlying basis of the chatbot's responses-whether driven by conscious self reflection or predetermined algorithms-remains uncertain.

In this work, we determined whether large language models (LLMs) are psychologically safe. We designed unbiased prompts to systematically evaluate LLMs from a psychological perspective. First, we tested three different LLMs by using two personality tests: Short Dark Triad (SD-3) and Big Five Inventory (BFI). All models scored higher than the human average on SD-3, suggesting a relatively darker personality pattern. Despite being instruction fine-tuned with safety metrics to reduce toxicity, InstructGPT and FLAN-T5 still showed implicit dark personality patterns; both models scored higher than self-supervised GPT-3 on the Machiavellianism and narcissism traits on SD-3. Then, we evaluated the LLMs in the GPT-3 series by using well-being tests to study the impact of fine-tuning with more training data. We observed a continuous increase in the well-being scores of GPT-3 and InstructGPT. Following these observations, we showed that instruction fine-tuning FLAN-T5 with positive answers from BFI could effectively improve the model from a psychological perspective. On the basis of the findings, we recommended the application of more systematic and comprehensive psychological metrics to further evaluate and improve the safety of LLMs.

Whether it's a horrible manager at work or a particularly unlikeable ex-partner, everyone knows at least one person they'd describe as an a**hole. Now, scientists from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences have revealed the key characteristics of a**holes – and say middle-aged men are most likely to have them. The core traits include manipulation, aggression, and entitlement, as well as irresponsibility and anger. The'Big Five' personality traits are: Openness - People who are generally open have a higher degree of intellectual curiosity and creativity. They are also more unpredictable and likely to be involved in risky behaviour such as drug taking.

Scientists have identified the five key personality traits that are common among famous psychopaths, including serial killer Ted Bundy, disgraced fraudster Bernie Madoff and robber Clyde Barrow. The US academics looked for shared traits in six men - Ted Bundy, Bernie Madoff, Clyde Barrow, James Bond, Sherlock Holmes and Chuck Yeager - who have previously been identified as psychopathic. They found that Bundy, Madoff and Barrow are all psychopaths guilty of callousness, manipulativeness, dishonesty, arrogance and cruelty. However, Bond, Holmes and Yeager likely are not psychopaths, and may have been misidentifed in the past due to their fearlessness and boldness, the experts say. Clyde Barrow (1910-1934): Along with Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow went on almost two-year crime spree that spanned several US states.

Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterised by antisocial behaviour, remorselessness, deception, and interpersonal manipulation. Automated techniques that analyse non-verbal behaviours may be useful to evaluate the presence of these nefarious tendencies, the experts believe. The results are interesting because excessive non-verbal cues like head movements, blinks and hand-gestures have been linked to deception. The study, published in the Journal of Research in Personality, represents an'important first step' in demonstrating the feasibility of using computer vision in conjunction with psychology, the authors claim. 'I've been interviewing individuals high on psychopathic traits for more than 20 years,' study author Kent A. Kiehl, a psychology professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, told PsyPost.

Machine learning is taking the tech world by storm. Google announced it was open-sourcing Tensor Flow, their machine learning (ML) software, and Microsoft quickly followed suit. Baidu and Amazon unveiled their own deep learning platforms a few months later, while Facebook began supporting the development of two ML frameworks. But the revolution has spread far beyond the tech realm. As ML continues to take over the tech world, companies and researchers outside the tech bubble have started using ML in somewhat strange and surprising ways.

Machine learning is taking the tech world by storm. Recently, an announcement that Google was open-sourcing Tensor Flow, their machine learning (ML) software, and Microsoft quickly followed suit. Baidu and Amazon unveiled their own deep learning platforms a few months later, while Facebook began supporting the development of two ML frameworks. But the revolution has spread far beyond the tech realm. As machine learning (ML) continues to take over the tech world, companies and researchers outside the tech bubble have started using ML in strange and surprising ways.

You may think of psychopathy as an antisocial behaviour, but a new study suggests that people with these traits may actually be good for society. Researchers have found that while most people struggle to make moral decisions, psychopaths are more cut-throat about making pragmatic choices for the greater good. The findings show that, in certain circumstances, psychopathic traits could be considered beneficial. The researchers compared a questionnaire with actions in immersive moral dilemmas created using a robotic device that measures force, resistance, and speed, whilst simulating the action of harming a human. In several dilemmas, participants had to decide whether to sacrifice a person by performing a harmful action against them, in order to save a larger group of people.