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AI Simulation Gives People a Peek of Their Potential Future Self

In a preliminary user study, the scientists discovered that after engaging with Future You for about half an hour, people reported decreased stress and anxiety and felt a more powerful sense of connection with their future selves.

“We don’t have a genuine time maker yet, however AI can be a type of virtual time device. We can use this simulation to assist individuals believe more about the effects of the choices they are making today,” says 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 joined 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 be presented at the IEEE Conference on Frontiers in Education.

A sensible simulation

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

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

With the advent of generative AI and big language models like ChatGPT, the scientists saw a chance to make a simulated future self that could talk about someone’s real objectives and goals during a typical discussion.

“The system makes the simulation very realistic. Future You is much more detailed than what an individual might develop by just envisioning their future selves,” says Maes.

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

The AI system uses this information to produce what the researchers call “future self memories” which offer a backstory the design 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 overcame a particular obstacle. This is possible since ChatGPT has actually been trained on substantial information including people discussing their lives, professions, and good and disappointments.

The user engages with the tool in 2 methods: through introspection, when they consider their life and objectives as they build their future selves, and retrospection, when they consider whether the simulation shows who they see themselves ending up being, states Yin.

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

To assist individuals visualize their future selves, the system produces an age-progressed picture of the user. The chatbot is also developed to offer vibrant responses using expressions like “when I was your age,” so the simulation feels more like an actual future variation of the individual.

The capability to take suggestions from an older variation of oneself, instead of a generic AI, can have a stronger favorable influence on a user considering an unsure future, Hershfield says.

“The interactive, vivid components 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 a negative instructions. To prevent this, they guarantee Future You warns users that it reveals just one potential version of their future self, and they have the agency to alter their lives. Providing alternate answers to the questionnaire yields a totally various discussion.

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

Aiding self-development

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

Participants who used Future You were able to build a more detailed relationship with their ideal 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 said the discussion felt genuine and that their values and beliefs appeared constant in their simulated future identities.

“This work creates a brand-new path by taking a reputable mental strategy to visualize times to come – an avatar of the future self – with cutting edge AI. This is precisely the type of work academics need to be concentrating on as technology to construct virtual self designs merges with large language designs,” says 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 research study, the researchers continue to fine-tune the methods they establish context and prime users so they have conversations that help build a stronger sense of future self-continuity.

“We want to direct the user to speak about particular subjects, 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 picture a business creating a “future you” of a prospective consumer who attains some fantastic result in life because they acquired a particular item.

Moving on, the researchers desire to study specific applications of Future You, possibly by making it possible for people to check out various careers or picture how their daily choices could affect environment modification.

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

“We do not want people to end up being depending on this tool. Rather, we hope it is a significant experience that helps them see themselves and the world in a different way, and aids with self-development,” Maes states.