For a long time I’ve thought it would be cool to upload my consciousness into a machine and be able to talk to a version of myself that didn’t have emotions and cravings.

It might tell me that being around my parents has consistently had a negative effect on my mood for years now, even if I don’t see it. Or that I don’t really love X, I just like having sex with her. Maybe it could determine that Y makes me uncomfortable, but has had an overall positive effect on my life. It could mirror myself back to me in a highly objective way.

Of course this is still science fiction, but @TheOtherJake@beehaw.org has pointed out to me that it’s now just a little bit closer to being a reality.

With Private GPT, I could set up my own localized AI.

https://generativeai.pub/how-to-setup-and-run-privategpt-a-step-by-step-guide-ab6a1544803e

https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT

I could feed this AI with information that I wasn’t comfortable showing to anyone else. I’ve been keeping diaries for most of my adult life. Once PrivateGPT was trained on the basic language model, I could feed it my diaries, and then have a chat with myself.

I realize PrivateGPT is not sentient, but this is still exciting, and my mind is kinda blown right now.

Edit 1: Guys, this isn’t about me creating a therapist-in-a-box to solve any particular emotional problem. It’s just an interesting idea about using a pattern recognition tool on myself, and have it create summaries of things I’ve said. Lighten up.

Edit 2: It was anticlimactic. This thing basically spits out word salad no matter what I ask it, even if the question has a correct answer, like a specific date.

  • ConsciousCode@beehaw.org
    12·
    1 year ago

    Chat GPT can already be a pretty good tool for self-reflection. The way its model works, it tends to reflect you more than anything else, so it can be used as a reasonably effective “rubber duck” that can actually talk back. I wouldn’t recommend it as a general therapeutic tool though, it’s extremely difficult to get it to take initiative so the entire process has to be driven by you and your own motivation.

    Also… Have you ever watched Black Mirror? This is pretty much the episode Be Right Back, it doesn’t end well.

    • renard_roux@beehaw.org
      5·
      1 year ago

      It doesn’t end well.

      Certainly true for the majority of Black Mirror episodes 😅

      And the show is just phenomenal. I’m recent years, I can’t think of any other show where I’m just in near constant awe of the writers, apart from Bluey. Watching either, my wife and I will often turn to the other at the end of an episode and go: “It’s just so fucking good”.