GPT-4o's Personality Revealed: An INFJ in the Machine?
I am not a psychologist. I don’t know anything about these tests. I have done them before and found them interesting but that is it. This notebook was put together on a Saturday evening to try out an idea. Check out mbti_notebook repo for more info into the experiment and to laugh at my code.
As with all good ideas, it had been done. Check out Do LLMs Possess a Personality? Making the MBTI Test an Amazing Evaluation for Large Language Models by Keyu Pan and Yawen Zeng. Their paper goes into the history, pros/cons, and application of the assessment on LLMs. I found it to be an interesting idea and raised even more questions about the future.
Inspired by this paper, I wanted to replicate and tweak the process for a more hands-on look at GPT-4o’s personality traits:
The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) categorizes personalities into 16 types based on how people perceive the world and make decisions. It’s a fancy way of sorting people into four preference pairs:
