As we have continued to integrate in our AI agent research, humans are unable to understand how they are perceived by others, thus phenomenologically, the construct of our identity is just that, a "construct" as we are a different person to all those we engage with. The same is true for attempting to reconstruct an AI clone of someone. We form a mental construct of different individuals based on our experience, social relationships, and personal significance they hold for us. As such, if looking to generate a clone of one's parents or grand parents, the voice and appearance would not fit their objective appearance as we generally hold a particular recollection of someone in our memory at a particular place and time in their life- therefore, one's grandmother may always be remembered as in their late 50s or early 60s regardless of how they have aged since that imprint. Therefore, we must keep these considerations at the forefront when looking to have AI agents act as different "personalities" or "individuals" even if that is customer service as our notion of identity is neither objective, logical, or consistent.
See our research here:
Hutson, J. & Ratican, J. (2023). Life, death, and AI: Exploring digital necromancy in popular culture—Ethical considerations, technological limitations, and the pet cemetery conundrum. Metaverse. Special Issue: Application of the Metaverse in Different Industries. Vol 4 (1): 1-12. https://lnkd.in/eWVAgK2j
Hutson, J., Ratican, J. & Biri, C. (2023). Essence as Algorithm: Public Perceptions of AI-Powered Avatars of Real People. DS Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics 1 (2): 1-14. https://lnkd.in/gaQ2zqa8
Hutson, J. & Ratican, J. (2023). Leveraging Generative Agents: Autonomous AI with Simulated Personas for Interactive Simulacra and Collaborative Research. Journal of Innovation and Technology. 1 (15): 2805-5179. https://lnkd.in/gqGiQNP5
Hutson, J. & Ratican, J. (2023) Individuality and the collective in AI agents: Explorations of shared consciousness and digital homunculi in the metaverse for cultural heritage. Metaverse. 4 (2): 1-21. https://lnkd.in/ghZj2SxQ
Ratican, J. Hutson, J. & Plate, D. (2023). Synthesizing Sentience: Integrating Large Language Models and Autonomous Agents for Emulating Human Cognitive Complexity. Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. 1 (4) October 20, 2023. 1-7. https://lnkd.in/g5TBzzGT
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