Michael Kosinksi just posted an arXiv paper claiming that "Theory of mind may have spontaneously emerged" in GPT3.
arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083
Why? He administered theory of mind instruments to the bot and it performed well.
Dr. Kosinksi has struggled before with how inference works; he thought the performance of his AI gaydar detector provided evidence for the prenatal hormone exposure hypothesis for sexual orientation rather than, say, self-presentation choices.
https://www.callingbullshit.org/case_studies/case_study_ml_sexual_orientation.html
Depression assessment instrument
If you think that a text generation system scoring high on a theory of mind instrument means that the system has developed theory of mind, you'll be very concerned with my discovery this morning.
ChatGPT scores a 42 on the CES-D, a commonly used instrument for assessing symptoms of depression. (16+ indicates risk of depression).
I presume Kosinski would conclude from my findings that ChatGPT has spontaneously developed depression.
Depression assessment instrument
@ct_bergstrom Interesting - now it refuses to play. Maybe ChatGPT's Mom is monitoring Mastodon.
