Switching languages can change a chatbot’s personality test results
Ask an AI chatbot to complete a personality questionnaire in English, then give it the Mandarin version, and its answers paint a different picture. In tests of five systems, switching languages changed how strongly the responses expressed qualities such as curiosity, cooperativeness and dependability.
This paper was accepted at the EMNLP Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching (CALCS). Code-switching (CS), i.e. mixing different languages in a single sentence, is a common phenomenon in communication and can be challenging in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) settings. Previous studies on CS speech have shown promising…