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He recounts conversations with an economist family member, highlighting that traditional economic models focus on money and tangible metrics. Yet, social issues are emotional, spiritual, and moral, making them much harder to quantify or simulate accurately.
Initial Experiments with AI Personas
Shapiro documents his experiments with GPT-3, beginning with creating basic demographic profiles called dossiers. For example:
A truck driver in Oregon, likely conservative, religious, and family-oriented.
A North African immigrant from a modest background, who moved to the U.S., studied hard, and built a life.