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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, individuals reported reduced stress and anxiety and felt a more powerful sense of connection with their future selves.
“We do not have a real time machine yet, but AI can be a type of virtual time machine. We can utilize this simulation to assist people believe more about the repercussions 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 signed up with on the paper by co-lead authors Kavin Winson, a researcher at KASIKORN Labs; and Peggy Yin, a Harvard University undergrad; in addition to 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, professor 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 realistic simulation
Studies about conceiving one’s future self return to at least the 1960s. One early technique intended at improving future self-continuity had people compose letters to their future selves. More just recently, scientists used virtual reality goggles to assist people envision future versions of themselves.
But none of these techniques were really interactive, restricting the effect they might have on a user.
With the introduction of generative AI and large language models like ChatGPT, the researchers saw a chance to make a simulated future self that could go over somebody’s actual objectives and aspirations during a normal conversation.
“The system makes the simulation extremely realistic. Future You is far more comprehensive than what a person might create by simply envisioning their future selves,” says Maes.
Users start by responding to a series of questions about their existing lives, things that are necessary to them, and objectives for the future.
The AI system uses this info to develop what the researchers call “future self memories” which offer a backstory the design pulls from when engaging with the user.
For example, the chatbot might discuss the highlights of someone’s future career or response concerns about how the user conquered a specific challenge. This is possible because ChatGPT has been trained on extensive information involving individuals discussing their lives, professions, and good and disappointments.
The user engages with the tool in two methods: through introspection, when they consider their life and goals as they build their future selves, and retrospection, when they ponder whether the simulation reflects who they see themselves ending up being, says Yin.
“You can picture Future You as a story search area. You have a possibility to hear how some of your experiences, which may still be emotionally charged for you now, might be metabolized over the course of time,” she states.
To assist people visualize their future selves, the system produces an age-progressed photo of the user. The chatbot is also developed to offer vibrant answers using phrases like “when I was your age,” so the simulation feels more like a real future variation of the person.
The ability to take recommendations from an older version of oneself, rather than a generic AI, can have a more powerful positive influence on a user contemplating an unsure future, Hershfield says.
“The interactive, vivid parts of the platform give the user an anchor point and take something that could lead to distressed 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 make sure Future You cautions users that it shows just one possible variation of their future self, and they have the agency to change their lives. Providing alternate answers to the survey yields an absolutely various discussion.
“This is not a prophesy, but rather a possibility,” Pataranutaporn states.
Aiding self-development
To evaluate Future You, they carried out a user research study with 344 individuals. Some users interacted with the system for 10-30 minutes, while others either communicated with a generic chatbot or only completed surveys.
who utilized Future You were able to build a better relationship with their perfect future selves, based upon an analytical analysis of their actions. These users likewise reported less stress and anxiety about the future after their interactions. In addition, Future You users said the conversation felt sincere and that their values and beliefs appeared consistent in their simulated future identities.
“This work creates a brand-new course by taking a well-established psychological technique to visualize times to come – an avatar of the future self – with cutting edge AI. This is exactly the kind of work academics need to be focusing on as innovation to build virtual self designs merges with large language models,” states 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 study, the scientists continue to fine-tune the methods they establish context and prime users so they have discussions that help construct a stronger sense of future self-continuity.
“We wish to direct the user to talk about particular topics, instead of 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 circumstances, one could envision a company producing a “future you” of a potential consumer who achieves some great outcome in life due to the fact that they acquired a particular item.
Progressing, the scientists wish to study specific applications of Future You, possibly by making it possible for people to explore different professions or picture how their daily options could impact climate modification.
They are likewise gathering data from the Future You pilot to better understand how people utilize the system.
“We do not desire people to become based on this tool. Rather, we hope it is a significant experience that assists them see themselves and the world differently, and assists with self-development,” Maes states.