The first component of Future You is an image generation model called StyleClip. After the user uploads a selfie, the system uses age-progression models to predict what they’ll look like at age 60, adding features like wrinkles and gray hair.

The training data for Future You’s chatbot comes from the data a user provides when asked questions about the current state of their life, their demographic details, and their goals and concerns for their future.

These answers are ingested by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, running GPT-3.5, which creates an architecture the researchers dubbed “future memory.” It blends predictions about the user’s future based on the questionnaire answers, using training data from a wider dataset of people talking about their life experiences in their careers, relationships and beyond.

The chatbot, which adopts a persona based on the user’s responses, then answers the user’s questions about what their life might be like and offers advice about possible pathways to the future they want.

Turney, D. (2024, October 11). ‘Future You’ AI lets you speak to a 60-year-old version of yourself — and it has surprising wellbeing benefits. Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/future-you-ai-lets-you-speak-to-a-60-year-old-version-of-yourself-and-it-has-surprising-wellbeing-benefits

Check out the Future You project: https://futureyou.media.mit.edu/

Read the research: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.12514