Evaluating and Modeling Social Intelligence: A Comparative Study of Human and AI Capabilities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.11841v1
• Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 07:34:48 GMT
• Title: Evaluating and Modeling Social Intelligence: A Comparative Study of Human and AI Capabilities
• Authors: Junqi Wang, Chunhui Zhang, Jiapeng Li, Yuxi Ma, Lixing Niu, Jiaheng Han, Yujia Peng, Yixin Zhu, Lifeng Fan,
• Abstract summary: This study introduces a benchmark for evaluating social intelligence, one of the most distinctive aspects of human cognition. We developed a comprehensive theoretical framework for social dynamics and introduced two evaluation tasks: Inverse Reasoning (IR) and Inverse Inverse Planning (IIP) Extensive experiments and analyses revealed that humans surpassed the latest GPT models in overall performance, zero-shot learning, one-shot generalization, and adaptability to multi-modalities.
• Score: 29.18360187129556
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Facing the current debate on whether Large Language Models (LLMs) attain near-human intelligence levels (Mitchell & Krakauer, 2023; Bubeck et al., 2023; Kosinski, 2023; Shiffrin & Mitchell, 2023; Ullman, 2023), the current study introduces a benchmark for evaluating social intelligence, one of the most distinctive aspects of human cognition. We developed a comprehensive theoretical framework for social dynamics and introduced two evaluation tasks: Inverse Reasoning (IR) and Inverse Inverse Planning (IIP). Our approach also encompassed a computational model based on recursive Bayesian inference, adept at elucidating diverse human behavioral patterns. Extensive experiments and detailed analyses revealed that humans surpassed the latest GPT models in overall performance, zero-shot learning, one-shot generalization, and adaptability to multi-modalities. Notably, GPT models demonstrated social intelligence only at the most basic order (order = 0), in stark contrast to human social intelligence (order >= 2). Further examination indicated a propensity of LLMs to rely on pattern recognition for shortcuts, casting doubt on their possession of authentic human-level social intelligence. Our codes, dataset, appendix and human data are released at https://github.com/bigai-ai/Evaluate-n-Model-Social-Intelligence.

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