After a two-hour interview, this AI can create a digital version of you by thinking, acting, and making decisions like you
Imagine having technology that could capture your essence, personality, and behavior in a digital version. Well, researchers at Stanford University have developed an artificial intelligence that, after a two-hour interview, can create a highly accurate digital simulation of a real person.
You might wonder why they did this, and in fact, one of their main goals was to develop a “virtual laboratory” to test how different individual profiles respond to public policies, health campaigns, or products without having to involve thousands of people in physical studies, which are often expensive and time-consuming.
This model is so accurate that it not only repeats itself but is also able to predict how you will behave in different situations, and you can see below the amazing accuracy figure it has achieved.
As we said, to create this digital copy, the AI agent interviews the person, but don't think of it as a simple model; it's a very interactive process that mixes pre-defined questions with other questions based on what's happening. The interviewee participates, as if the interviewer were another person, but with a greater ability to imitate.
The interviewer begins with an open-ended question such as, "Tell me your life story, from childhood to the present.” By answering this question, the client will begin to build the “skeleton” of the person in front of him, his values, and his perspective.
As mentioned earlier, use your answers to create new, relevant questions. For example, if you mentioned that you enjoyed growing up in a rural environment, you might ask, “What aspects of rural life made the biggest impression on you? Are there any experiences that you remember fondly?”
Throughout the interview, the AI agent will continue to explore your childhood, upbringing, experiences, beliefs on social, political, and cultural issues, lifestyle, emotions, and personality, to the point where it will be able to detect when you are speaking passionately or otherwise emotionally about a topic in order to ask relevant questions and thus delve deeper into your personality.
In tests conducted by Stanford researchers on more than 1,000 participants, they were able to replicate the responses of the original participants with 85% accuracy, thus proving that AI can clone almost all of us.