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AI Simulation Gives People a Peek of Their Potential Future Self
In an initial user study, the researchers discovered that after engaging with Future You for about half an hour, individuals reported reduced stress and anxiety and felt a stronger sense of connection with their future selves.
“We don’t have a real time maker yet, however AI can be a type of virtual time maker. We can utilize this simulation to assist individuals believe more about the consequences of the choices 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 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 scientist at KASIKORN Labs; and Peggy Yin, a Harvard University undergraduate; along with 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 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
about conceiving one’s future self return to a minimum of the 1960s. One early technique focused on enhancing future self-continuity had people write letters to their future selves. More recently, researchers used virtual reality safety glasses to help individuals visualize future versions of themselves.
But none of these approaches were very interactive, limiting the effect they could have on a user.
With the development of generative AI and big language models like ChatGPT, the scientists saw an opportunity to make a simulated future self that might go over somebody’s real objectives and aspirations throughout a typical conversation.
“The system makes the simulation very practical. Future You is much more in-depth than what a person might create by simply imagining their future selves,” says Maes.
Users begin by addressing a series of questions about their current lives, things that are very important to them, and goals for the future.
The AI system uses this info to produce what the researchers call “future self memories” which offer a backstory the design pulls from when interacting with the user.
For circumstances, the chatbot might discuss the highlights of somebody’s future profession or answer questions about how the user overcame a specific obstacle. This is possible since ChatGPT has been trained on extensive data including individuals discussing their lives, professions, and great and disappointments.
The user engages with the tool in 2 methods: through self-questioning, when they consider their life and objectives as they construct their future selves, and revision, when they ponder whether the simulation reflects who they see themselves becoming, states Yin.
“You can envision Future You as a story search area. You have an opportunity to hear how some of your experiences, which may still be mentally charged for you now, might be metabolized throughout time,” she says.
To help people visualize their future selves, the system creates an age-progressed picture of the user. The chatbot is also created to provide vibrant responses utilizing expressions like “when I was your age,” so the simulation feels more like a real future variation of the individual.
The ability to take guidance from an older version of oneself, instead of a generic AI, can have a stronger favorable influence on a user contemplating an unpredictable future, Hershfield says.
“The interactive, vibrant parts of the platform offer the user an anchor point and take something that could lead to anxious rumination and make it more concrete and productive,” he adds.
But that realism could backfire if the simulation moves in a negative direction. To prevent this, they make sure Future You cautions users that it shows only one possible version of their future self, and they have the company to alter their lives. Providing alternate responses to the questionnaire yields a completely different conversation.
“This is not a prophesy, however rather a possibility,” Pataranutaporn says.
Aiding self-development
To evaluate Future You, they conducted a user research study with 344 people. Some users engaged with the system for 10-30 minutes, while others either communicated with a generic chatbot or just filled out studies.
Participants who used Future You were able to build a better relationship with their perfect future selves, based on an analytical analysis of their responses. These users also reported less stress and anxiety about the future after their interactions. In addition, Future You users stated the conversation felt sincere and that their values and beliefs seemed consistent in their simulated future identities.
“This work creates a brand-new path by taking a reputable mental method to imagine times to come – an avatar of the future self – with cutting edge AI. This is precisely the kind of work academics need to be concentrating on as technology to develop virtual self designs combines with large language designs,” states Jeremy Bailenson, the Thomas More Storke Professor of Communication at Stanford University, who was not included with this research.
Building off the outcomes of this initial user research study, the researchers continue to fine-tune the methods they establish context and prime users so they have discussions that help build a more powerful sense of future self-continuity.
“We want to direct the user to talk about specific topics, rather than asking their future selves who the next president will be,” Pataranutaporn states.
They are likewise adding safeguards to avoid people from misusing the system. For circumstances, one might envision a business creating a “future you” of a potential consumer who accomplishes some fantastic outcome in life due to the fact that they acquired a particular item.
Moving on, the scientists wish to study specific applications of Future You, perhaps by making it possible for individuals to check out various professions or imagine how their daily choices might impact environment change.
They are also gathering data from the Future You pilot to much better understand how individuals use the system.
“We do not desire individuals to become depending on this tool. Rather, we hope it is a meaningful experience that helps them see themselves and the world in a different way, and helps with self-development,” Maes states.