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Humans are terrible at remembering things. We forget things over time; we fail to remember them in the first place because we\u2019re also not great at paying attention; we misremember things because of our inherent biases and the way we perceive the world. There\u2019s a lot going on, and we don\u2019t keep much of it for long.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Maybe AI can fix that. It sure looks like we\u2019re about to find out. Microsoft, for instance, is making a big bet on Recall<\/a>, 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, \u201cWhat was that article about bees I read the other day? What was the timeline it mentioned?\u201d) At this year\u2019s Google I\/O, the most impressive AI demo was a way to remember where you left your glasses<\/a>. Apple thinks you might use AI to make photo albums and even emotional videos to remember great moments. And companies like Notion<\/a> and Dropbox<\/a> are building AI into their own tools to help you find and remember all your meetings and tasks. They all promise the same thing: don\u2019t worry about remembering things because the computer will do it for you. And it\u2019ll do it faster and better.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n On this episode of The Vergecast<\/em><\/a>, 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<\/a>. We talk about what it takes to build a great memory aid, how we might use them in the future, and why it\u2019s so tricky to get right. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n We also talk about the human side of it all \u2014 what does it change about our lives when we stop forgetting things? Is remembering your friend\u2019s birthday different when it\u2019s 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\u2019re going to have to figure out how to live with them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n