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AI Simulation Gives People a Glance of Their Potential Future Self
In an initial user study, the scientists found that after connecting with Future You for about half an hour, people reported reduced stress and anxiety and felt a more powerful sense of connection with their future selves.
“We don’t have a genuine time machine yet, but AI can be a kind of virtual time device. We can use this simulation to help individuals think more about the consequences of the choices they are making today,” says Pat Pataranutaporn, a current 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 scientist at KASIKORN Labs; and Peggy Yin, a Harvard University undergraduate; as well as Auttasak Lapapirojn and Pichayoot Ouppaphan of KASIKORN Labs; and senior authors Monchai Lertsutthiwong, head of AI research study 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, teacher of marketing, behavioral decision making, and psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles. The research study will be presented at the IEEE Conference on Frontiers in Education.
A sensible simulation
Studies about conceptualizing one’s future self go back to a minimum of the 1960s. One early approach aimed at improving future self-continuity had people write letters to their future selves. More just recently, researchers utilized virtual reality safety glasses to assist people picture future variations of themselves.
But none of these methods were extremely interactive, restricting the effect they could have on a user.
With the development of generative AI and large language models like ChatGPT, the scientists saw an opportunity to make a self that could talk about somebody’s actual objectives and aspirations during a normal conversation.
“The system makes the simulation very reasonable. Future You is far more comprehensive than what a person could create by just imagining their future selves,” says Maes.
Users begin by answering a series of concerns about their present lives, things that are essential to them, and goals for the future.
The AI system utilizes this info to create what the researchers call “future self memories” which provide a backstory the model pulls from when communicating with the user.
For example, the chatbot could discuss the highlights of somebody’s future career or response questions about how the user conquered a specific difficulty. This is possible because ChatGPT has actually been trained on comprehensive data involving individuals speaking about their lives, professions, and good and disappointments.
The user engages with the tool in two ways: through introspection, when they consider their life and objectives as they construct their future selves, and retrospection, when they consider whether the simulation reflects who they see themselves ending up being, says Yin.
“You can think of Future You as a story search space. You have a possibility to hear how a few of your experiences, which may still be mentally charged for you now, might be metabolized throughout time,” she says.
To help people picture their future selves, the system produces an age-progressed picture of the user. The chatbot is likewise created to offer vivid answers using expressions like “when I was your age,” so the simulation feels more like a real future variation of the person.
The ability to take advice from an older version of oneself, instead of a generic AI, can have a more powerful positive effect on a user considering an unsure future, Hershfield says.
“The interactive, vivid elements of the platform give the user an anchor point and take something that could result in anxious rumination and make it more concrete and efficient,” he adds.
But that realism might backfire if the simulation relocates an unfavorable direction. To avoid this, they make sure Future You cautions users that it reveals only one prospective version of their future self, and they have the firm to change their lives. Providing alternate responses to the questionnaire yields an absolutely various discussion.
“This is not a prophesy, however rather a possibility,” Pataranutaporn says.
Aiding self-development
To assess Future You, they conducted a user study with 344 individuals. Some users connected with the system for 10-30 minutes, while others either engaged with a generic chatbot or only filled out surveys.
Participants who used Future You were able to construct a more detailed relationship with their perfect future selves, based upon an analytical analysis of their actions. These users likewise reported less stress and anxiety about the future after their interactions. In addition, Future You users said the conversation felt sincere which their worths and beliefs appeared constant in their simulated future identities.
“This work creates a new course by taking a well-established mental method to visualize times to come – an avatar of the future self – with cutting edge AI. This is exactly the type of work academics need to be concentrating on as innovation to build virtual self designs merges with large language models,” states Jeremy Bailenson, the Thomas More Storke Professor of Communication at Stanford University, who was not involved with this research study.
Building off the outcomes of this initial user research study, the researchers continue to tweak the methods they establish context and prime users so they have discussions that help develop a more powerful sense of future self-continuity.
“We desire to direct the user to discuss certain topics, rather than asking their future selves who the next president will be,” Pataranutaporn states.
They are also including safeguards to avoid individuals from misusing the system. For instance, one might imagine a company developing a “future you” of a possible consumer who accomplishes some excellent result in life because they bought a specific item.
Moving on, the researchers desire to study particular applications of Future You, possibly by allowing people to check out various careers or picture how their everyday choices might impact environment change.
They are also collecting data from the Future You pilot to better comprehend how individuals use the system.
“We don’t desire people to become dependent on this tool. Rather, we hope it is a meaningful experience that assists them see themselves and the world differently, and aids with self-development,” Maes states.