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AI Simulation Gives People a Look of Their Potential Future Self
In an initial user research study, the researchers found that after communicating with Future You for about half an hour, individuals reported decreased stress and anxiety and felt a more powerful sense of connection with their future selves.
“We don’t have an actual time machine yet, however AI can be a type of virtual time machine. We can use this simulation to assist people think more about the effects of the options 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 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 researcher 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, of marketing, behavioral decision making, and psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles. The research will exist at the IEEE Conference on Frontiers in Education.
A practical simulation
Studies about conceptualizing one’s future self go back to at least the 1960s. One early technique targeted at enhancing future self-continuity had individuals compose letters to their future selves. More recently, researchers made use of virtual truth safety glasses to assist individuals imagine future versions 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 designs like ChatGPT, the scientists saw an opportunity to make a simulated future self that could talk about somebody’s real goals and aspirations throughout a typical discussion.
“The system makes the simulation very reasonable. Future You is much more detailed than what an individual could create by just imagining their future selves,” states Maes.
Users begin by answering a series of questions about their current lives, things that are crucial to them, and goals for the future.
The AI system uses this info to develop what the researchers call “future self memories” which provide a backstory the model pulls from when interacting with the user.
For example, the chatbot might discuss the highlights of someone’s future profession or response questions about how the user got rid of a particular challenge. This is possible because ChatGPT has been trained on comprehensive data involving individuals discussing their lives, professions, and good 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 shows who they see themselves becoming, states Yin.
“You can think of Future You as a story search space. You have a possibility to hear how some of your experiences, which might still be mentally charged for you now, could be metabolized throughout time,” she says.
To assist people picture their future selves, the system creates an age-progressed picture of the user. The chatbot is likewise designed to offer brilliant answers utilizing phrases like “when I was your age,” so the simulation feels more like an actual future version of the person.
The ability to take suggestions from an older variation of oneself, instead of a generic AI, can have a more powerful favorable influence on a user contemplating an uncertain future, Hershfield states.
“The interactive, vivid parts of the platform give 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 moves in an unfavorable direction. To prevent this, they guarantee Future You warns users that it shows only one possible variation of their future self, and they have the agency to alter their lives. Providing alternate answers to the questionnaire yields a completely different conversation.
“This is not a prophesy, however rather a possibility,” Pataranutaporn states.
Aiding self-development
To evaluate Future You, they carried out a user research study with 344 people. Some users interacted 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 develop a better 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 genuine and that their worths and beliefs appeared constant in their simulated future identities.
“This work forges a brand-new course by taking a reputable psychological strategy to envision times to come – an avatar of the future self – with cutting edge AI. This is exactly the kind of work academics need to be concentrating on as technology to develop 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 results of this initial user study, the researchers continue to fine-tune the methods they establish context and prime users so they have conversations that help construct a more powerful sense of future self-continuity.
“We desire to direct the user to discuss specific topics, rather than asking their future selves who the next president will be,” Pataranutaporn says.
They are likewise including safeguards to prevent individuals from misusing the system. For instance, one could imagine a company developing a “future you” of a prospective customer who achieves some terrific outcome in life because they bought a particular item.
Moving forward, the researchers desire to study particular applications of Future You, perhaps by making it possible for individuals to check out various professions or visualize how their daily choices could affect environment modification.
They are likewise collecting data from the Future You pilot to much better comprehend how individuals use the system.
“We do not want 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 aids with self-development,” Maes says.