MIT Media Lab presented the project future you , which offers young people aged 18 Up to 30 years, a unique opportunity to chat with artificial intelligence that imitates them at the age of 60. Chat bots created using personalized data and AI-seized images answer questions, share memories and offer life lessons.
research showed that the participants find this experience emotionally useful. Communication with future versions helped them feel a great connection with the future, more positively treated the upcoming events and increased the motivation for achieving long -term goals.
“The purpose of the project is to stimulate long -term thinking and change in behavior,” explains Pat Pataranutaporn from Mit Media Lab. “This can motivate people to make more reasonable decisions in the present, which optimize their well -being and life results in the long term.”
Chat bots are increasingly used in therapy to cover underestimated population groups. However, most of them are focused on specific tasks, such as help with autism or depression. The MIT team decided to test generative artificial intelligence in the field of future self -identification – the connection that people feel with their future versions.
The existing methods for strengthening this connection include the exchange of letters with the future “I” or the interaction with the digital avatar in virtual reality. The new MIT approach combined the latest achievements in the field of chat bots and AI-exteenated images, creating a more affordable web-oriented method.
Participants provided basic information about themselves, past successes and failures, as well as their vision of the ideal future. Using Openai GPT, researchers created personalized chat bots with “synthetic memories.” For example, one of the participants wanted to become a biology teacher, and the Chat-Bot assumed the role of a professor of biology, sharing jokes and tips.
To increase realism, the participants provided their photos, which then artificially old with the help of AI and used a chatbot as a profile.
The study was attended by more than three hundred people. Some were in control groups, while others talked with chat bots of their future versions from 10 to 30 minutes. Immediately after the conversation, the participants noted a decrease in the level of anxiety and strengthening the connection with the future “I”, which contributes to more deliberate decision -making in the field of health and finance.
In the future, more realistic versions of such technologies can be expected. Startups, such as Synthesia, already offer believable II-authors , and Channel 1 Created realistic avatars