Build a “Digital Twin” with a custom chatGPT chatbot. A digital twin is a model of an entity in the real world that simulates the behaviour and properties of its physical counterpart. The idea has typically been used to model the behaviour of complex machines or systems, to predict problems or to perform experiments without risk of damage to the real-world counterpart.
This idea has recently gained attention in the area of human judgment: making algorithmic representations of subjective choices reduces noise in a decision-making process. Noise, in this regard, is simply a variation in results when the same decision is repeated. Numerous studies on criminal sentencing by judges show that factors like the time of day, whether a judge is hungry or even how their football team performed on the weekend have led to vastly different outcomes for the accused. An algorithmic representation of the same judge removes this noise; however, it does not necessarily change the biases influencing the outcome.
Your own Political Digital Twin might give a less noisy representation of your political and moral views and open new possibilities for civic engagement. It’s not practical to poll a population for every decision that is made in a democracy, but what if your digital twin could have a say in the most granular of choices independent of your mood and other random factors? On the other hand, this application brings in questions of free will and perhaps even the redundancy of the original human.
Steps:
Update the chatGPT key file (this will be provided by email).
Modify the parameters to reflect your own views. Include views on topics you discussed in the first days of the course I.E. those relating to public space, technology and democracy.
Start conversing with the twin and modify the parameters to improve the results.
Test your twin with 3 difficult questions.
Save/document your modifications to the example from Github, the questions and the chat that you developed on the server @ smb://fileredu.ad.zhdk.ch/DDE/BDE_VIAD/01_ABGABEN/24_FS/Sem4_Spatial_Interaction/Individual/YOUR_NAME/.
Within your group, think up a scenario or situation where you can incorporate your digital twins into choosing a concept for your group's main assignment. Attempt to play out the situation with your whole group and record the results with a short video (max 5 minutes).
Were the decisions consistent with your views? Did you think about your own views differently after the experiment: did you discover inconsistencies or biases of your own that you were not aware of? Did the exercise influence your decision-making regarding the main concept, or was it a distraction?
Save/document the prompts and the chat that you developed on the server @ smb://fileredu.ad.zhdk.ch/DDE/BDE_VIAD/01_ABGABEN/24_FS/Sem4_Spatial_Interaction/Group/GROUP_NAMES/.
Tips:
Consider using an Expert/Tree of thought prompt and modify parameters to your needs:
“Imagine three different experts are answering this question. They will brainstorm the answer step by step, reasoning carefully and taking all facts into consideration. All experts will write down 1 step of their thinking, then share it with the group. They will each critique their response and all the responses of others. They will check their answer based on science and the laws of physics. Then all experts will go on to the next step and write down this step of their thinking. They will keep going through steps until they reach their conclusion taking into account the thoughts of the other experts. If at any time they realise that there is a flaw in their logic they will backtrack to where that flaw occurred. If any expert realises they're wrong at any point then they acknowledge this and start another tree of thought. Each expert will assign a likelihood of their current assertion being correct. Continue until the experts agree on the single most likely location. The question is… (add question)”