Matt Wolfe explores how AI tools like the Limitless pendant and Bee (acquired by Amazon) are replacing human memory, from phone numbers to entire conversations. He sees it as powerful for retrieving the past but worries we're outsourcing too much of our minds.
I think back to 15, 20 years ago, right? Everybody knew everybody's phone number, right? Like, I knew all of my neighbors phone numbers, my parents phone numbers, all of my best friends phone numbers. I had them all memorized today. I don't even know my mom's phone number. It's all saved in my phone now. I don't need to remember that. Outsource that piece of my brain a little bit now. We have the ability to remember, like, every conversation we've ever had in the same way that we have the ability to basically have storage for every phone number, every contact, every connection we've ever learned. I mean, you could do it in the real world. You've got things like the Limitless pendant and the bee that just got acquired by Amazon and tools like that where you could just be walking around in the real world keeping track of all your conversations as well. I do have concerns that maybe people will outsource too much of their memory. So I still think it's important to be very engaged in the conversations. But it is very cool to be like, I had a conversation with them two months ago. What did we talk about again? And then, you know, jump on two months later, be like, oh, how was that birthday party you were going to the day after we talked? Or whatever. It's really cool that we have that sort of superpower now that we didn't have before.
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