04/10/2024

Humans Forget

AI assistants will remember everything

Proponents of artificial intelligence (AI) are quick to list the myriad ways their tech will serve as extensions of our busy brains. But as Apple, Google and other companies race to bring their AI creations onto our phones, we're being presented with an opportunity to use these next-gen digital assistants to correct one of our inherent human flaws: poor memory.

Tom Gruber, who cofounded the company that created Apple's Siri voice assistant, says the potential for offloading memory-dependent tasks is the first big leap toward making AI assistants that can truly ape human thinking.

“The basic pieces of cognition, the fundamental one is memory,” Gruber said. “It's the functional inner loop, the basis of almost all of our inference. Almost all of our daily cognition or computation is memory-based. We can do so much augmentation with just memory. It's just one of the things that humans aren't so hot at.”

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