DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist

 DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF 

By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane 

NEW SCIENCE: MIT CREATES AI CHATBOT THAT LETS YOU CHAT WITH YOUR FUTURE SELF

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• Scientists have created the future you that can give sage life advice to the current you.  Here's what we know:
• MIT scientists have created an AI-powered chatbot that simulates a 60-year-old version of you
• 334 volunteers were used in the trials
• One result was that the volunteers felt more connected with their future selves
• The process:

1. The volunteers answered a series of questions about their past, current life and where they want to be in their future life
2. The volunteers provided a current personal photo
3. The volunteers' answers were fed into Open AI's Chat-3.5, which generated synthetic memories

• An example:  one young volunteer told AI that she wanted to be a biology teacher.  When she asked her 60-year-old self: "What was the most rewarding moment of my career?"  AI responded: "When you helped a struggling student turn bad grades around and pass biology".
• One wonders if your older self doesn't much care for your know-it-all, wise cracking younger self.  And when you ask your older self: "What was the most rewarding, shining moment of my career?" Your older self pauses and sarcastically answers: "We're still waiting for it."

YOUR BRAIN IS A LOT MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU THINK

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• New scientific research has discovered that the brain can hold 10-times the amount of information than it was thought to be capable of doing.  Here are some key facts:  
• This research done by a team of scientists, from The Salk Institute and University of California San Diego, is being called breakthrough
• They found the brain can hold at least a petabyte of information - that's the equivalent of 500 billion DVDs
• That's 10-times more information than previously thought
• The scientists created a new technique that enabled them to determine how much information synapses can store
• Information is transmitted across the brain by electrical signals from neuron to neuron via the tiny space where the 2 cells meet called the synapse
• Our brain has more than 100 trillion synapses
• The power of our brain is staggering
• This new research promises to lead to better understanding of memory decline from aging and illness and much more.

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