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AI Simulation Gives People a Peek of Their Potential Future Self

In a preliminary user study, the researchers discovered that after communicating with Future You for about half an hour, individuals reported reduced anxiety and felt a more powerful sense of connection with their future selves.

“We do not have an actual time device yet, however AI can be a type of virtual time device. We can utilize this simulation to assist individuals believe more about the effects of the options they are making today,” states Pat Pataranutaporn, a recent Media Lab doctoral graduate who is actively developing a program to advance human-AI interaction research at MIT, and co-lead author of a paper on Future You.

Pataranutaporn is joined on the paper by co-lead authors Kavin Winson, a researcher at KASIKORN Labs; and Peggy Yin, a Harvard University undergraduate; in addition to Auttasak Lapapirojn and Pichayoot Ouppaphan of KASIKORN Labs; and senior authors Monchai Lertsutthiwong, head of AI research at the KASIKORN Business-Technology Group; Pattie Maes, the Germeshausen Professor of Media, Arts, and Sciences and head of the Fluid Interfaces group at MIT, and Hal Hershfield, professor of marketing, behavioral choice making, and psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles. The research study will exist at the IEEE Conference on Frontiers in Education.

A sensible simulation

Studies about conceptualizing one’s future self go back to at least the 1960s. One early approach targeted at improving future self-continuity had people write letters to their future selves. More recently, scientists made use of virtual reality safety glasses to help individuals visualize future variations of themselves.

But none of these methods were very interactive, limiting the effect they could have on a user.

With the advent of generative AI and large language designs like ChatGPT, the researchers saw an opportunity to make a simulated future self that could go over someone’s real goals and goals throughout a typical conversation.

“The system makes the simulation really reasonable. Future You is far more detailed than what an individual could come up with by just envisioning their future selves,” says Maes.

Users start by addressing a series of concerns about their present lives, things that are necessary to them, and objectives for the future.

The AI system utilizes this info to create what the scientists call “future self memories” which supply a backstory the design pulls from when interacting with the user.

For example, the chatbot could speak about the highlights of someone’s future career or response concerns about how the user got rid of a specific difficulty. This is possible because ChatGPT has actually been trained on extensive information involving people discussing their lives, professions, and excellent and disappointments.

The user engages with the tool in 2 ways: through self-questioning, when they consider their life and objectives as they construct their future selves, and revision, when they ponder whether the simulation reflects who they see themselves becoming, says Yin.

“You can think of Future You as a story search area. You have a possibility to hear how a few of your experiences, which might still be mentally charged for you now, could be metabolized throughout time,” she states.

To help individuals imagine their future selves, the system produces an age-progressed photo of the user. The chatbot is likewise developed to provide vivid answers utilizing phrases like “when I was your age,” so the simulation feels more like a real future version of the individual.

The capability to listen from an older version of oneself, rather than a generic AI, can have a stronger favorable impact on a user considering an uncertain future, Hershfield states.

“The interactive, vibrant elements of the platform offer the user an anchor point and take something that could lead to distressed rumination and make it more concrete and productive,” he includes.

But that realism might backfire if the simulation relocates a negative direction. To avoid this, they guarantee Future You cautions users that it shows only one potential version of their future self, and they have the agency to change their lives. Providing alternate responses to the questionnaire yields a completely various conversation.

“This is not a prophesy, however rather a possibility,” Pataranutaporn states.

Aiding self-development

To examine Future You, they performed a user study with 344 individuals. Some users engaged with the system for 10-30 minutes, while others either interacted with a generic chatbot or just completed studies.

Participants who used Future You were able to build a closer relationship with their ideal future selves, based on an analytical analysis of their responses. These users likewise reported less anxiety about the future after their interactions. In addition, Future You users said the discussion felt genuine and that their values and beliefs appeared consistent in their simulated future identities.

“This work creates a brand-new path by taking a reputable mental strategy to imagine times to come – an avatar of the future self – with cutting edge AI. This is exactly the type of work academics must be focusing on as technology to develop virtual self models combines with big language designs,” states Jeremy Bailenson, the Thomas More Storke Professor of Communication at Stanford University, who was not involved with this research.

Building off the results of this initial user study, the researchers continue to fine-tune the ways they develop context and prime users so they have discussions that help build a stronger sense of future self-continuity.

“We want to guide the user to speak about certain subjects, rather than asking their future selves who the next president will be,” Pataranutaporn states.

They are likewise adding safeguards to prevent individuals from misusing the system. For example, one might envision a business developing a “future you” of a prospective consumer who accomplishes some great outcome in life since they acquired a particular item.

Moving on, the researchers want to study particular applications of Future You, perhaps by making it possible for to explore different careers or visualize how their daily options might impact environment change.

They are likewise gathering data from the Future You pilot to much better comprehend how people utilize the system.

“We do not desire individuals to end up being depending on this tool. Rather, we hope it is a meaningful experience that assists them see themselves and the world in a different way, and assists with self-development,” Maes says.