So, New Zealanders and Australians are the most similar to AI, and Ethopians and Pakistanis the least.
So, New Zealanders and Australians are the most similar to AI, and Ethopians and Pakistanis the least. This study shows that WEiRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) populations are the most aligned with ChatGPT.
It is intriguing why some nations, including Netherlands and Germany, are more GPT-similar than Americans.
The paper uses cognitive tasks such as the “triad task,” which distinguishes between analytic (category-based) and holistic (relationship-based) thinking, GPT tends to analytic thinking, which aligns with countries like the Netherlands and Sweden, that value rationality. This contrasts with holistic thinkers found in many non-WEIRD cultures.
GPT tends to describe the "average human" in terms that are aligned with WEIRD norms.
In short, with the overwhelmingly skewed data used to train AI and the outputs, it's “WEIRD in, WEIRD out”.
The size of the models or training data is not the issue, it's the diversity and representativeness of the data.
All of which underlines the value and importance of sovereign AI, potentially for regions or values-aligned cultures, not just at the national level. | 18 comments on LinkedIn