I have spent a lot of time thinking about personality recently. My head is swimming with everything from the Five Factor Model to Enneagrams to Social Cognitive Theories.
Turns out that personality is not an easy thing to quantify or even qualify exactly what it means. Psychologists seem to abound with differing theories of the why and approaches of the how.
As we look at adding personality to our Ai technology we have had to pick thru much of the work and look at what is not just useful but also practical from an implementation perspective. Personality models that use language as a basis make a lot of sense as that is somewhat more easily controllable..ie using a certain word over another is an indication of personality type and while we all do it subconsciously people 'assign' personality by listening to those words we use.
In the movies and books Ais always seem to have a strong fixed personality type ...usually quite sarcastic it seems. From Marvin the Paranoid Android in Hitchhikers to Robbie the Robot or even to my good friend Hal. However the reality is that as we start to see more 'personality' come into our hardware and software constructs these will not be fixed personalities but rather will blend to match the needs of the user.
As least they will if I can just figure out what that ink blot actually is...
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