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 @[email protected] 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.
I’ve found that learning about and practicing DBT has offered me more of a skill to do this myself. I know what you mean about wishing you could see outside the frame of your emotions and past. In DBT, we have something called the “emotion mind” and the “reasonable mind.” But we need both in order to make decisions. Rationality is great, but emotion provides direction, desire, goals, and a “why” for everything we do. The idea is that when you use emotion and reason together, you can use your “wise mind” which can help you see outside your experiences and gain perspective in new areas. I think I know what you mean because I also crave further neutral 3rd party understanding on my past too, and use ChatGPT a lot for that myself. Thought I would just throw in a couple more cents if you hadn’t heard of the concept. :)