Does AI outperform humans in understanding human psychology? After coming across the thought-provoking post by Peter Slattery, PhD, I decided to run my own little test with a scientifically backed test from Clearer Thinking (link below). Results: GPT4 outperformed: 57% of psychology experts outperformed: 91% of non-expert study participants Luckily, it's the dimension where I am still slightly better. My results: You outperformed: 72% of psychology experts You outperformed: 95% of non-expert study participants Conclusion - Yes, even GPT4 knows humans better than most experts. Test: https://lnkd.in/gd73U3D2
💡 AI Outperforms Human Psychologists in Social Intelligence Test A recent study published in Frontiers in Psychology compared the social intelligence of advanced AI language models like ChatGPT-4, Google Bard, and Bing to human psychologists. 📄"The Human participants were a sample of male psychologists in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with one of two levels of education (Bachelor’s and doctoral students) at King Khalid University during 2023–2024. The study sample consisted of 180 participants, including 72 bachelor’s students and 108 doctoral students in counseling psychological program." "We conducted a single evaluation for each AI model on August 1, 2023 of its SI performance using the Social Intelligence Scale (Sufyan, 1998). In each evaluation, we provided AI the same 64 standard SI scenarios. A link to the questionnaire was sent to human participants via e-mail. While the large linguistic models of AI were asked to answer the scale items individually and their answers were collected in a separate external file by directing a question to the AI models to choose the appropriate answer from the alternative points for each item in the scale." 📊 Key findings: 1️⃣ ChatGPT-4 outperformed all participating psychologists on the Social Intelligence Scale. 2️⃣ Bing surpassed more than half of the psychologists, especially those at the bachelor's level. 3️⃣ Google Bard's performance was comparable to bachelor's level psychologists but significantly lower than doctoral students. 💬 Does this surprise you? I didn't expect AI would beat humans at social intelligence. What areas of intelligence do you expect Humans to outcompete AI in over the longer term? 📚 References/further reading Sufyan, N. S., Fadhel, F. H., Alkhathami, S. S., & Mukhadi, J. Y. A. (2024). Artificial intelligence and social intelligence: preliminary comparison study between AI models and psychologists. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. Follow MIT FutureTech if you are interested in technological trends and their social implications. #AI #technology #economics
Thanks Ivan, that's very interesting. I might try it myself!
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5moIf AI or human psychologists understood humans well enough they would have solved all the social problems we still suffer from. So AI might be smart but still a long way to go to understand humans, I reckon.