Can AI preserve your most precious memories? | Pau Aleikum Garcia

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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"Memories are the architects of our identity," says technologist Pau Aleikum Garcia, but they're not permanent. Photos can be lost amid political unrest or natural disaster, while illnesses like Alzhemier's can rob people of their past. He puts forward a novel solution — "synthetic memories," or dreamlike visualizations of long-gone moments created through generative AI — and explores how it could reconnect families or even enhance cognitive abilities.

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0:17.0	What if we could expand the capacity of our minds and ease cognitive decline that comes with old age or disease.
0:25.8	Data and design expert, Pao Aleicum Garcia is working on it with the help of generative
0:31.2	AI. In his 2024 talk, Garcia sheds light
0:34.4	on the work of transforming our actual memories
0:37.4	into blurry undefined images
0:40.5	to make something called synthetic memories.
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