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Re:A Danish Political Party Led by an AI by visarga on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:27AM (#33231687)
Apparently GPT-3 has learned a large number of personality types and their fine grained biases, well enough to simulate a poll with good accuracy. This means you can poll it any time to check how a population of choice would have reacted had something happened. The language model does not carry the just biases of its builders, it learns all biases equally, you just need to specify the desired bias (personality type) when you call it. The responsibility falls with the user, builders are not to blame this time unless they didn't cover every bias equally well.

> GPT3 can simulate real people, Jack Clark

https://jack-clark.net/2022/10/11/import-ai-305-gpt3-can-sim...

Re:A Danish Political Party Led by an AI by fuzzc0re on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:04AM (#33231948)
Ok so GPT-3 can model biases well. This still doesn't solve problems such as the optimal aggregation of citizens' preferences, which is the actual optimization problem of policy making. Just to give an idea of how complex a field this is, there is a subdomain of economic theory and information theory called social choice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_choice_theory that works with these issues and itself does not have many theories about policy formation, mostly choice between already formed policies. If a neural net finds the way to write policies that are Nash equilibrium collective decisions in all possible democracy systems then we will be close to solving the problem.