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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 connecting with Future You for about half an hour, individuals reported reduced stress and anxiety and felt a stronger sense of connection with their future selves.

“We do not have an actual time machine yet, however AI can be a type of virtual time device. We can utilize this simulation to help people 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 of a paper on Future You.

Pataranutaporn is signed up with on the paper by co-lead authors Kavin Winson, a scientist at KASIKORN Labs; and Peggy Yin, a Harvard University undergrad; as well as 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, teacher of marketing, behavioral choice making, and psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles. The research study will be provided at the IEEE Conference on Frontiers in Education.

A realistic simulation

Studies about conceiving one’s future self return to a minimum of the 1960s. One early method focused on enhancing future self-continuity had individuals compose letters to their future selves. More just recently, researchers used virtual reality goggles to help individuals picture future variations of themselves.

But none of these approaches were really interactive, limiting the effect they might have on a user.

With the development of generative AI and large language models like ChatGPT, the researchers saw an opportunity to make a simulated future self that might go over somebody’s real objectives and aspirations during a typical discussion.

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

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

The AI system utilizes this information to produce what the researchers call “future self memories” which offer a backstory the model pulls from when engaging with the user.

For example, the chatbot might discuss the highlights of somebody’s future career or response concerns about how the user conquered a specific obstacle. This is possible due to the fact that ChatGPT has actually been trained on substantial information including individuals discussing their lives, careers, and good and bad experiences.

The user engages with the tool in two ways: through introspection, when they consider their life and goals as they build their future selves, and revision, when they ponder whether the simulation shows who they see themselves becoming, says Yin.

“You can imagine Future You as a story search area. You have a chance to hear how some of your experiences, which might still be emotionally charged for you now, could be metabolized over the course of time,” she states.

To assist individuals imagine their future selves, the system generates an age-progressed image of the user. The chatbot is also developed to provide vivid responses using expressions like “when I was your age,” so the simulation feels more like a real future version of the individual.

The capability to take recommendations from an older version of oneself, instead of a generic AI, can have a stronger favorable effect on a user contemplating an uncertain future, Hershfield says.

“The interactive, vibrant components of the platform give the user an anchor point and take something that might result in distressed rumination and make it more concrete and efficient,” he adds.

But that realism could backfire if the simulation moves in a negative direction. To avoid this, they make sure Future You warns users that it shows only one prospective variation of their future self, and they have the agency to alter their lives. Providing alternate answers to the survey yields a completely different discussion.

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

Aiding self-development

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

Participants who utilized Future You were able to develop a more detailed relationship with their perfect future selves, based upon an analytical analysis of their responses. 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 seemed constant in their simulated future identities.

“This work forges a brand-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 focusing on as innovation to construct virtual self designs combines with large language designs,” says Jeremy Bailenson, the Thomas More Storke Professor of Communication at Stanford University, who was not included with this research study.

Building off the outcomes of this preliminary user research study, the researchers continue to fine-tune the ways they establish context and prime users so they have conversations that assist build a more powerful sense of future self-continuity.

“We wish to guide the user to talk about particular topics, rather than asking their future selves who the next president will be,” Pataranutaporn says.

They are also including safeguards to avoid people from misusing the system. For example, one might imagine a company developing a “future you” of a prospective consumer who attains some excellent outcome in life because they purchased a particular item.

Moving on, the researchers wish to study specific applications of Future You, perhaps by enabling individuals to explore various professions or picture how their everyday choices might affect climate modification.

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

“We don’t want people to become dependent on this tool. Rather, we hope it is a significant experience that assists them see themselves and the world in a different way, and assists with self-development,” Maes states.

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