About a month ago, I introduced an idea I had about retaining the intelligence of a human. 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.

The steps to do this are as follows:

1. First, go to this page to log in. https://www.panzoto.com/login/. This is used to track the decisions you made based on premade stories.
2. Then go to this page to make as many decisions as possible. https://www.panzoto.com/add-decision/. I recommend at least 10 decisions, but it will work with just one decision if making decisions is inherently difficult.
3. Then go to this page to type in the decision you would like to make. You can either provide several choices or simply ask a question. The model will return the choice number, or make up some reasonable choices based on the decisions you made before. https://www.panzoto.com/make-a-decision/.
4. If you like to submit more stories to help to expand the decision story repository. Please submit those on this page. https://www.panzoto.com/submit-your-decision-story/. Keep in mind to use gender-neutral references when building your story. Refrain from including personal detail in the stories. Make the stories as generic as you can. The stories will be approved by a human.

DISCLAIMER: By using this service, you assume the potential risk of asking a computer model to make suggestions to you. This is meant to be helpful and not inflict harm. It should be used in the case where you seriously considered the pros and cons of at least 2 decisions, but were still unable to make the decision because of your emotion. Please don’t ask for ethically questionable decisions. The model has filters for harmful language and self-inflicting harm. In general, please don’t ask questions that will get this service shut down.