I've recently been trying out a product called Second Me, which is made by my friend, teacher Tao Fangbo. The more I use it, the more distracted I get, and I start thinking about a bunch of things related to social interaction. I have over three thousand friends on WeChat, and I can't even remember the names of many of their profile pictures. Occasionally, someone will suddenly send a message, and my first reaction is, "Who is this?" I open the message, only to find that we chatted once last December, and then I just quietly leave it there. Second Me attempts to solve this problem by allowing people to build a second self step by step through recording. This second self can chat and connect with other people's second selves in the AI world. If one day it can connect to WeChat and social media groups, it can "scan" all my 3,000+ friends and 3,000+ social media groups in the background, automatically filtering out the few people most worth talking to in depth, or the few companies most suitable for working together. The people are still the same, and WeChat is still WeChat, but there's an extra middle layer that understands me well, helping me to find the truly important connections. Second Me is still in its early stages. I'm only using it as a second brain to remember people, events, and thoughts. Currently, our similarity is only 60%. Whether AI can reshape our social interactions in the future is still uncertain. We may have to wait a few years to look back at these small experiments from the past year or two.
