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Rael Hornby

MIT's FutureYou is the AI version of a motivational cat poster

White cat hanging on a clothesline on a yellow background.

Have you ever thought to yourself, “If I could go back in time and tell my younger self one thing it’d be…”? Well, you wouldn’t be the only one. Lord knows how many potholes we could all save ourselves from falling into if only we could reach out from this moment in time and offer them a guiding hand along life’s bumpy pathways.

And that’s the premise behind MIT’s FutureYou, an AI chatbot designed to imitate your 60-year-old self while spitting pearls of wisdom at you like Confucius with a mouth full of marbles.

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