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AI Simulation Gives People a Peek of Their Potential Future Self

In a preliminary user research study, the scientists discovered that after communicating with Future You for about half an hour, people reported decreased 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 kind of virtual time device. We can use this simulation to help individuals think more about the effects of the choices they are making today,” says Pat Pataranutaporn, a recent Media Lab doctoral graduate who is actively developing a program to advance human-AI interaction research study 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 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 decision 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 realistic simulation

Studies about conceiving one’s future self return to a minimum of the 1960s. One early method targeted at enhancing future self-continuity had individuals compose letters to their future selves. More recently, researchers utilized virtual truth goggles to assist people visualize future variations of themselves.

But none of these techniques were very interactive, restricting the effect they might have on a user.

With the advent of generative AI and big language designs like ChatGPT, the researchers saw a chance to make a simulated future self that might go over somebody’s actual objectives and goals throughout a typical conversation.

“The system makes the simulation really realistic. Future You is much more comprehensive than what an individual could come up with by just imagining their future selves,” says Maes.

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

The AI system utilizes this information to produce what the scientists call “future self memories” which provide a backstory the design pulls from when communicating with the user.

For circumstances, the chatbot could talk about the highlights of someone’s future career or answer about how the user conquered a specific obstacle. This is possible since ChatGPT has actually been trained on substantial data including individuals discussing their lives, careers, and excellent and disappointments.

The user engages with the tool in 2 ways: through self-questioning, when they consider their life and goals as they build their future selves, and retrospection, when they consider whether the simulation reflects who they see themselves ending up being, says Yin.

“You can picture Future You as a story search space. You have a possibility to hear how a few of your experiences, which might still be emotionally charged for you now, could be metabolized over the course of time,” she says.

To help people picture their future selves, the system produces an age-progressed picture of the user. The chatbot is also developed to supply brilliant responses utilizing phrases like “when I was your age,” so the simulation feels more like an actual future version of the individual.

The capability to take guidance from an older variation of oneself, rather than a generic AI, can have a stronger positive influence on a user contemplating an uncertain future, Hershfield says.

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

But that realism could backfire if the simulation relocates a negative instructions. To avoid this, they make sure Future You warns users that it reveals just one prospective version of their future self, and they have the firm to change their lives. Providing alternate answers to the questionnaire yields an absolutely various discussion.

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

Aiding self-development

To assess Future You, they performed a user research study with 344 people. Some users engaged with the system for 10-30 minutes, while others either connected with a generic chatbot or only submitted surveys.

Participants who utilized Future You had the ability to build a more detailed relationship with their perfect future selves, based on a statistical analysis of their responses. These users also reported less anxiety about the future after their interactions. In addition, Future You users stated the conversation felt sincere and that their worths and beliefs seemed constant in their simulated future identities.

“This work forges a brand-new path by taking a reputable mental technique to picture times to come – an avatar of the future self – with cutting edge AI. This is precisely the kind of work academics ought to be focusing on as technology to build virtual self designs combines with large language models,” 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 scientists continue to tweak the methods they establish context and prime users so they have discussions that assist construct a stronger sense of future self-continuity.

“We wish to direct the user to discuss particular subjects, instead of asking their future selves who the next president will be,” Pataranutaporn says.

They are also including safeguards to avoid individuals from misusing the system. For circumstances, one could picture a company creating a “future you” of a potential customer who attains some excellent outcome in life due to the fact that they purchased a particular product.

Moving on, the scientists wish to study particular applications of Future You, perhaps by making it possible for people to explore different professions or picture how their everyday choices could affect environment modification.

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

“We don’t desire individuals to end up being based on this tool. Rather, we hope it is a significant experience that helps them see themselves and the world differently, and assists with self-development,” Maes states.