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The Times Tech Podcast

Rewind AI’s Dan Siroker on honesty through AI eavesdropping

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dan Siroker, founder of Rewind AI, to talk about why he started the company (4:40), recording everything you do, see and read (7:10), living life on a “hot mic" (10:20), the pendant (12:45), bringing Black Mirror to life (17:00), AI as cognitive butler (23:45), growing up surrounded by tech in Palo Alto (28:00), working on the Obama campaign (29:00), making mistakes at other companies (34:00), his view of Sam Altman (37:35), how he uses Rewind (43:00), and dealing with the hallucination problem (44:30).

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0:00.0

Yo, technology.

0:02.0

What is it all about?

0:04.0

We don't even realize what it would be like to live with perfect memory, and that's what we're trying to make real.

0:09.0

You can't imagine it, you only have to feel it.

0:11.0

And so that's what we're trying to do, is making humans feel like they have perfect memory.

0:15.0

And when you do that, I think people very quickly realize that how could I live my life without it?

0:19.0

Just like you couldn't live a day without your glasses. We hope that, you know, people will feel the same. And we see that today.

0:24.3

People say that every day.

0:45.9

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, a weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

0:49.8

I'm your host, Danny Ford's in the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times.

0:52.6

And this week, well, I have a question.

1:00.9

How would you feel about having a device, an app that saw everything that you saw on your screen,

1:07.4

heard everything you said, read everything you read, recorded all of it, and then would mine that personal record of you and all of your idiosyncrasies and conversations turns a phrase,

1:13.6

your most important and personal relationships and all their complexities,

1:17.6

and then use that corpus of data to start writing emails for you, managing your life,

1:24.6

reminding you of birthdays, summarizing conversations, kind of becoming your

1:29.2

digital butler, so to speak.

1:31.8

Does that sound at all creepy to you?

1:34.8

Does that sound like a black mirror episode?

1:37.6

Spoiler alert, it is!

1:40.2

But anyhow, that is what Dan Soroker has built, it's rather, at Rewind AI, a startup that has not only built an app that does all of the above.

1:52.0

It is also building a wearable device.

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