Jill Anderson: Man, this sounds awful. Personal future circumscribed by a technology that can only draw on existing text.

Man, this sounds awful. Personal future circumscribed by a technology that can only draw on existing text.

Researchers at MIT “built an AI-powered chatbot that simulates a user’s older self and dishes out observations and pearls of wisdom. The aim is to encourage people to give more thought today to the person they want to be tomorrow.” ht @bluberrymorning.bsky.social

AI researchers build ‘future self’ chatbot to inspire wise life choiceswww.theguardian.com Exclusive: Scientists at MIT hope talking to 60-year-old self will shift thinking on health, money and work

Worse than elderly, judgemental in-laws

Don't bother dreaming, kids, AI "knows" your future! (And it's super linear, too!)

I'd actually make sure they all listen to Sharon Van Etten's "Seventeen" instead :-)

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