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AI Simulation Gives People a Glance of Their Potential Future Self

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

“We do not have a genuine time maker yet, but AI can be a kind of virtual time maker. We can utilize this simulation to assist individuals think more about the consequences of the options they are making today,” states Pat Pataranutaporn, a recent Media Lab doctoral graduate who is actively establishing a program to advance human-AI interaction research study at MIT, and co-lead author of a paper on Future You.

Pataranutaporn is signed up with on the paper by co-lead authors Kavin Winson, a researcher at KASIKORN Labs; and Peggy Yin, a Harvard University undergrad; along with 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, 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 reasonable simulation

Studies about conceiving one’s future self return to a minimum of the 1960s. One early technique targeted at improving future self-continuity had people write letters to their future selves. More recently, researchers utilized virtual reality safety glasses to assist individuals visualize future variations of themselves.

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

With the arrival of generative AI and large language models 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 regular discussion.

“The system makes the simulation really reasonable. Future You is far more in-depth than what an individual might come up with by just envisioning their future selves,” states Maes.

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

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

For example, the chatbot might speak about the highlights of someone’s future profession or answer concerns about how the user got rid of a particular difficulty. This is possible since ChatGPT has been trained on substantial data including people discussing their lives, careers, and great and bad experiences.

The user engages with the tool in 2 methods: through self-questioning, when they consider their life and objectives as they build their future selves, and revision, when they ponder whether the simulation shows who they see themselves ending up being, says Yin.

“You can envision Future You as a story search space. You have an opportunity to hear how some of your experiences, which might still be emotionally charged for you now, could be metabolized throughout time,” she says.

To assist people envision their future selves, the system generates an age-progressed picture of the user. The chatbot is also developed to offer brilliant answers utilizing expressions like “when I was your age,” so the simulation feels more like an actual future variation of the person.

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

“The interactive, vivid parts of the platform provide the user an anchor point and take something that could result in anxious rumination and make it more concrete and efficient,” he includes.

But that realism could backfire if the simulation relocates a negative direction. To avoid this, they make sure Future You cautions users that it reveals just one prospective variation of their future self, and they have the agency to alter their lives. Providing alternate answers to the survey yields an absolutely different discussion.

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

Aiding self-development

To examine Future You, they carried out a user research study with 344 people. Some users communicated with the system for 10-30 minutes, while others either communicated with a generic chatbot or just submitted studies.

Participants who used Future You were able to develop a closer relationship with their perfect future selves, based upon a statistical analysis of their reactions. These users also reported less stress and anxiety about the future after their interactions. In addition, Future You users said the discussion felt sincere which their values and beliefs appeared constant in their simulated future identities.

“This work creates a new path by taking a well-established psychological strategy to visualize times to come – an avatar of the future self – with cutting edge AI. This is exactly the kind of work academics must be focusing on as innovation to construct virtual self models merges with big language designs,” states Jeremy Bailenson, the Thomas More Storke Professor of Communication at Stanford University, who was not with this research.

Building off the outcomes of this initial user study, the researchers continue to tweak the methods they establish context and prime users so they have conversations that help build a stronger sense of future self-continuity.

“We desire to direct the user to speak about specific topics, instead of asking their future selves who the next president will be,” Pataranutaporn states.

They are also including safeguards to prevent people from misusing the system. For example, one could picture a business developing a “future you” of a prospective client who achieves some excellent outcome in life due to the fact that they bought a particular item.

Moving forward, the researchers wish to study specific applications of Future You, maybe by making it possible for people to explore different careers or picture how their daily choices could affect climate modification.

They are likewise collecting information from the Future You pilot to better comprehend how people utilize the system.

“We do not desire individuals to become reliant on this tool. Rather, we hope it is a significant experience that helps them see themselves and the world differently, and helps with self-development,” Maes states.

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