Inside the AI memory machine
by David Pierce from The Verge - All Posts on (#6P6WY)
Image: Samar Haddad for The Verge Humans are terrible at remembering things. We forget things over time; we fail to remember them in the first place because we're also not great at paying attention; we misremember things because of our inherent biases and the way we perceive the world. There's a lot going on, and we don't keep much of it for long.
Maybe AI can fix that. It sure looks like we're about to find out. Microsoft, for instance, is making a big bet on Recall, an app that promises to use AI to collect, store, organize, and resurface everything you do and see on your computer. (Imagine just being able to ask your computer, What was that article about bees I read the other day? What was the timeline it mentioned?") At this year's Google I/O, the most impressive AI...