Technologist Powell Garcia is using AI to create photos of people's most precious memories.

How her mother was dressed, the haircut that she remembered. We generated tens of images.

And then she saw two images that was like, that was it.

Ideas about the future of memory. That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR.

You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. What's up, Tudorinos? It's Emily Kwong. And Burley McCoy,

freshly back from parental leave and Emily. Today I hear you recently embarked on some late night reporting in the woods under the cover of darkness.

Yeah.

So is this your way of telling us you're a spy?

Would a spy reveal that?

Okay, my thoughts exactly.

But seriously, what were you doing out there?

Well, Burley, I was on a night hike.

So in about two minutes, we'll get started.

Meanwhile, enjoy yourself.

It was a tromp through Patuxent River State Park in Maryland,

hosted by a group of naturalists,

people trained in gathering observations

and educating people about the environment.

Now, naturalists lead hikes all over the world,

but not all of them, like this crew,

hand out homemade banana bread.

That was pretty cool.

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