Rather than building an AI to mimic humans, I want to capture how a human would make decisions. Because I think the decisions we made say a lot about who we are as a person.

So I went after the idea and developed a prototype. I wrote some decision stories or scenarios in life where one needs to make a decision. The decisions have the potential to shape who we are as a person. Each decision story has 4 choices one can choose from. They are not black-or-white decisions. Each decision could be a valid choice, depending on how the person chooses to live their life. Once the person made enough choices from various decision stories, the algorithm could help the person make a choice on a never seen scenario. This could help us make decisions in the event we are either unsure or don’t want emotion to influence our decisions. Or if we recorded the decisions of our role models and would like to know what decisions would they make in the same situation. You can actually ask, “What would X do?”. This is still a work in progress, so I’m just piecing together many parts as we go.

The backend uses a model to summarize how the person made decisions before. And come up with a generalization of the person’s profile. Then use the profile to guide future decisions.

I have an app at my website. Please take a look if want to try it out. https://www.panzoto.com/decision-stories-the-introduction/