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I like to think that I’m a very different person now from who I was in my youth. There are still the occasional discomfiting and cringeworthy moments that catch me unaware and remind me of that younger callow self who now seems like a stranger. With the passage of time, I know I have changed, but without quite fully understanding how, when and why. I doubt if we would ever know everything about the past or anything about the future, but there are some who think artificial intelligence (AI) can predict what we will become.?

Among the expanding list of AI’s capabilities is its ability to interact and converse with us – which could even make people fall in love with chatbots. Recently, a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created a programme called Future You. It is a web-based platform that prompts participants to answer a series of questions about themselves and then builds a version of them 20 years in the future with whom they can have a conversation. According to the official website, the lab developed this tool after being inspired by studies on “self-continuity”.