This analysis was delivered as a TEDx talk at TEDx MDI Gurgaon, 2024. Here's the video:
Here is the annotated transcript of the talk, along with slides.
The Big 5 Personality Traits are group of five unique characteristics used to study personality.
The Big Five model of personality is widely considered to be the most scientifically valid way to describe personality differences.
One such test asks you to describe yourself on a 5-point scale against 50 questions like:
Then sum up the values to get a score between 8 - 40 against each of the Big 5 traits.
We asked a dozen LLMs these questions. Here's how they responded.
Each of these traits exists on a spectrum. Here are famous figures representing the extremes. This helps us understand how these traits manifest in real life.
As we can see, these traits aren't about good or bad – it's about where we fall on the spectrum and how that shapes our personalities and interactions.
We'll explore where each model stands compared with other models on a percentile scale.