Inside the AI memory machine

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 14 July 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Humans are terrible at remembering things. On this episode of The Vergecast, we talk to one of the people who has been working on this problem for a very long time: Dan Siroker, the CEO of Limitless. We talk about what it takes to build a great memory aid, how we might use them in the future, and why it’s so tricky to get right. We also talk about the human side of it all — what does it change about our lives when we stop forgetting things? Is remembering your friend’s birthday different when it’s actually an AI model doing the remembering? And will these tools ever really work outside of work? Tools like Limitless are coming fast and improving quickly, and we’re going to have to figure out how to live with them. Further reading: From The New York Times: Can’t See Pictures in Your Mind? You’re Not Alone. Limitless AI: a new wearable gadget, and app, for remembering your meetings Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs Microsoft’s all-knowing Recall AI feature is being delayed The Pixel 9’s ‘Google AI’ is like Microsoft Recall but a little less creepy Apple announces iOS 18 with new AI features and more customizable homescreen Notion AI can automatically write your notes, agendas, and blog posts for you Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome to the Virge Cast, the flagship podcast of Total Recall, both the concept and the movie,
0:39.9	but only the first movie, not so much the Con-Farrellral one. Anyway I'm your friend David Pierce
0:44.3	and this is the first episode in our latest mini series all about AI. We talked so
0:50.2	much about AI these days and so much of it is so abstract. AI is this big messy concept and it's easy to get lost in all
1:00.0	the theories and consequences inside of it. Those things matter, of course, a lot. But we also
1:05.7	want to try and get a bit of an on-the-ground view of how AI is actually being used and whether
1:12.4	it's actually useful. Today I want to talk about a use of AI that is
1:16.4	suddenly everywhere. It goes by many names. Microsoft calls it recall. With
1:21.9	recall we're going to leverage the power of AI
1:24.4	and the new system performance
1:26.1	to make it possible to access virtually anything
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