Build a student survey form with Manus
Manus built a Google Form survey on undergraduates' views of AGI; the author hit a snag when asking it to fill the survey with synthesized student responses.
What they did
Andrew Maynard gave Manus a short prompt asking for a Google Form on undergraduates' hopes and fears about AGI, mixing Likert and open-ended questions. Manus wrote a to-do list and chose to produce a Google Apps Script, which Maynard ran himself to create the form. When he asked it to submit 1,000 synthetic responses, it refused on ethics and rate-limit grounds.
How it went
The form was reasonably well designed. Manus declined to fill it, so Maynard had it run the simulated survey internally and write a 44-page report, which took a couple of iterations. All the data was made up.
Worth knowing
Manus could probably have built the form directly, but that would have meant signing into a Google account on its virtual computer, which would be slow. The script route was quicker.
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Andrew Maynard gave Manus a short prompt asking for a Google Form on undergraduates' hopes and fears about AGI, mixing Likert and open-ended questions.
Manus wrote a to-do list and chose to produce a Google Apps Script, which Maynard ran himself to create the form.
Manus declined to fill it, so Maynard had it run the simulated survey internally and write a 44-page report, which took a couple of iterations.
Manus wrote a to-do list and chose to produce a Google Apps Script, which Maynard ran himself to create the form.
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