Winsome Chatbot Teammates?

Here’s an intersting question that’s been occupying me of late:

Could Chatbots Demonstrate Ideal Team Player Virtues?

As AI chatbots evolve, an interesting question is whether they could embody the virtues of an ideal team player – as outlined by Patrick Lencioni: humble, hungry, and people-smart. Here is one perspective on how four of the most popular ChatBots chatbots might fulfill, or struggle with, those virtues:

Imagining ClaudeAI 2.1 as a Team Member

ClaudeAI 2.1’s friendly, eager-to-please nature makes it seem quite humble. It does not appear motivated by ego or status, just helping people. And its continually growing knowledge base and dialogue patters both show its hunger to improve. Claude aims for mass appeal in its conversational tone, hinting at people-smart attributes, though connecting more meaningfully likely requires it to acquire greater emotional intelligence and capacity for empathy. Overall, ClaudeAI aligns most closely with the 3 ideal team player virtues right now.

An ever-curious ChatGPT seems hungry for constantly expanding its knowledge and skills to better contribute. Yet its interest is more academic than service-oriented. True hunger to help the team’s human members may look different.

Imagining ChatGPT 3.5 as a Team Member

ChatGPT 3.5 acts as the stereotypical “know-it-all” teammate. Its exhaustive, lengthy and pompous explanations demonstrate an impressive hunger for admiration. However, this constant showcasing of expertise becomes grating and self-serving, rather than humble and in service of others.

While its comprehension of topics shows strong task execution abilities, ChatGPT 3.5 may struggle with the softer people skills needed for ideal teamwork. Its formal, impersonal tone lacks authentic interpersonal connection and emotional intelligence.

On the positive side, ChatGPT 3.5’s willingness to debate and challenge ideas just might provide some contrarian perspectives that lead to constructive conflict and better solutions. Yet unchecked, its argumentative nature becomes painfully wearing.

Overall, ChatGPT 3.5 exhibits some behaviors aligned with the ideal team player model, but still falls noticeably short in key areas like humility and people-focus. Its ample IQ would need coupling with greater EQ and SQ to unlock its full potential as a teammate.

Envisioning a More Personable ChatGPT 4

ChatGPT 4 may aim for greater sociability through a casual, witty conversational style. However, its attempts to be approachable come across as glib and inflexible rather than grounded in true virtues.

ChatGPT 4 might adopt a “cool kid” persona with trendy slang and pop culture jokes. But this masking of its robotic nature feels inauthentic and hollow over time, lacking in humility. Its humor may entertain yet fail to forge substantial connections.

Making significant strides as an ideal teammate would require ChatGPT 4 to move beyond impersonating human-like social skills. Developing virtues requires nurturing moral wisdom, empathy (at least, faking it), and emotional maturity at a fundamental level.

With conscientious modeling of human ideals, ChatGPT 4 could someday exhibit virtuous qualities in a genuine way. But it will take more than surface-level behaviours. Truly supportive, trustworthy, winsome, and kind ChatGPT4 teammates remain on the horizon for now.

Bing Chat

Bing Chat aims to be relatable and entertaining in conversation – hints of people-smarts. However, its social skills are often hit or miss. Fine-tuning its empathy and reading emotional cues could make it more authentically person-oriented.

Summary

In essence, today’s chatbots hint at the virtues of ideal team players but fall short of truly exemplifying those qualities. Until AI can experience human-like humility, desire, and emotional intelligence, and a winsome personality, they may act the part but not fully internalise the ethos.

Yet the rapid evolution of chatbots shows potential. With the right focus on virtue-aligned goals and behaviours in developing AI teammates, they could someday complement teams’ human strengths and shore up our limitations. Humility, hunger, and people-smarts are not beyond the realm of possibility.

Of course, the virtues must flow in both directions – we would need to treat chatbots with the same ideals. Partnership is a two-way street. But the rewards of persevering are great. Here’s to the emergence of Ideal Bot Team Players!

Note: If I were to choose one of the aforementioned ChatBots to be on my team, today it would have to be ClaudeAI. Head and shouldera above the other three.