On the Cybernetics of Artificial Personality: Correlating with Human Traits

Abstract

George and Mary (G&M) is a US patented cybernetics application of two talking heads which uses a repertoire of sentences to generate artificial conversation with no linguistic analysis or parsing. The underlying design assumption of G&M is age dependence: The artificial personality follows Age Trend Classification (ATC) model with four complex dimensions. The idea of adult age dependence contrasts with main currents in academic psychology, which assume a substantially constant personality in adulthood. The Big 5 personality traits are widely used as a psychological personality model, part of their popularity is the free availability of evaluation questionnaires. This work is a correlation study between four ATC and five Big 5 traits, taking into account age dependence, so that correlation is represented graphically as profiles rather than single values of correlation coefficients. The practical consequences of validated artificial personality include customized man-machine interaction to the age and personality of the users and targeted internet marketing.