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.