AI might help you to talk to your older self soon
The mind-boggling combinatorics of recent advances in AI
It's fun to think about creative ways of combining and extrapolating different AI technologies - the combinatorics of AI are mind-boggling. Especially given recent advances some eerie stuff might be nigh.
Take this deep fake video of Ernest Hemingway reading Harry Potter, but in his signature terse, no-nonsense literary style:
The GPT language model generated the text from scratch by turning the beginning of Harry Potter into Hemingway's literary style:, the video was ‘deep faked' using a static photo of his, and the audio was voice cloned from a short audio sample of Hemingway's Nobel prize acceptance speech.
Many people have aged their own photos or faces or swapped genders using apps based on similar AI techniques.
But perhaps soon you might be able to create an a model of yourself using AI that you can talk to. This AI might be older, wiser and/or smarter.
Analogously, soon you might be able to talk to a chatbot based a model of yourself using AI. This AI-you might be older, wiser and/or smarter.
Recent advances in AI language modelling - think ChatGPT - have shown that modern language models are surprisingly good at conversing and also at imitating the styles of different people (e.g. you get advice from an AI chatbot about what to cook for dinner tonight as if it was Obama, Shakespeare, etc.)
Soon you'll be able to train a language model to get it to imitate you 'a chat with a model of yourself'.
First, a generic language model like GPT will be fine-tuned on your personal data:
What you've written (e.g. looking through your emails and messenger data)
Where you've been (Your Google Maps history)
How you want to come across (Your social media posts)
What you've bought (Amazon)
Genetics (23andme)
What data you've loaded into your brain (What you have read on using your entire browser history, what you've read on Kindle, what movies you've watched etc.).
What you say to people (your calls and Zooms)
Based on this the model will infer it'll infer your demographics (age, gender, socioeconomic background, sexuality, politics, religion, and, beyond that, your values, preferences, and tastes.
At first, you'll only get a chatbot that you can talk to, but if you let Big Tech process your video call data (could be anonymized), they can create a 'deep fake’ complete with real-time voice cloning for the chatbot, so you can have have a video chat with yourself (on zoom) in real time. Others will be able to talk the model of yourself too, if you you're too busy and can't answer the phone.
This AI might be extrapolated to be different and better emulation of yourself: an older, wiser, and/or smarter -and if you wish kinder- 'you' that can serve as a personalized oracle.
It'll also create a kind of 'Digital immortality' — the reconstruction of the exact model of the person based on his information traces.
Generally, people become slightly more conservative as they get older and you might not like what what the advice it gives you, but we should assume that future selves might have good advice - if you don't think that, you might be falling prey to the 'End of History Illusion’, the finding that people of any age will say that they've changed as a person a lot in recent years but won't change much in the future.
AI might help you to talk to your older self soon
No mention of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back?