Generative AI models garnered a large amount of public attention and
speculation with the release of OpenAIs chatbot, ChatGPT. At least two opinion
camps exist: one excited about possibilities these models offer for fundamental
changes to human tasks, and another highly concerned about power these models
seem to have. To address these concerns, we assessed GPT3.5 using standard,
normed, and validated cognitive and personality measures. For this seedling
project, we developed a battery of tests that allowed us to estimate the
boundaries of some of these models capabilities, how stable those capabilities
are over a short period of time, and how they compare to humans.
Our results indicate that GPT 3.5 is unlikely to have developed sentience,
although its ability to respond to personality inventories is interesting. It
did display large variability in both cognitive and personality measures over
repeated observations, which is not expected if it had a human-like
personality. Variability notwithstanding, GPT3.5 displays what in a human would
be considered poor mental health, including low self-esteem and marked
dissociation from reality despite upbeat and helpful responses.

GPT3.5 的认知能力和人格测量存在较大的变异性，但其所展示的低自尊和与现实脱节的表现可能与人类的良好心理健康状态相悖。