The MIT-led project asked young users to talk to an AI-powered simulation of their 60-year-old selves through a chatbot ...

With climate change threatening coffee crops globally, prices are set to rise faster than your pulse after that first cup.

Brown, as Nicholas Dawidoff describes in his New Yorker essay, “explains crime as the consequence of pessimistic boys growing up among unfulfilled adults who had no agency, the boys certain that an ...

Chatbots are now posing as friends, romantic partners, and departed loved ones.Now, we can add another to the list: Your future self. MIT Media Lab's Future You project invited young people, aged 18 ...

As much as Future You plays up the benefits of talking to one’s future self for decision-making, its creators also acknowledge the threats that personalized AI-generated characters pose.

Visualizing the future of smart cities. While fleets of self-driving cars won’t appear on the streets overnight, Malikopoulos said that now is the time for researchers to begin visualizing the future ...

Self-checkout works best for small, quick trips, not large basket sizes," Gallino said. Retailers are recalibrating self-checkout use rather than retreating, he said.

Future You: A Conversation with an AI-Generated Future Self Reduces Anxiety, Negative Emotions, and Increases Future Self-Continuity. Submitted to arXiv , 2024 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2405.12514 Cite ...

When you talk to that persona, you'll find it has a synthetic memory of the last 30 years. That way, it can talk to you about what led it to become the (projected, fictional) version of yourself.

An essay is a piece of writing that is written to convince someone of something or to inform the reader about a particular topic. As students write essays, they introspect and learn at the same time.