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Can AI Preserve Your Most Precious Memories? | Pau Aleikum Garcia | TED

“Memories are the architects of our identity,” says technologist Pau Aleikum Garcia, but they’re not permanent. Photos can be lost amid political unrest or natural disaster, while illnesses like Alzhemier’s can rob people of their past. He puts forward a novel solution — “synthetic memories,” or dreamlike visualizations of long-gone moments created through generative AI…

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“Memories are the architects of our identity,” says technologist Pau Aleikum Garcia, but they’re not permanent. Photos can be lost amid political unrest or natural disaster, while illnesses like Alzhemier’s can rob people of their past. He puts forward a novel solution — “synthetic memories,” or dreamlike visualizations of long-gone moments created through generative AI — and explores how it could reconnect families or even enhance cognitive abilities. (Recorded at TED2024 on April 18, 2024)

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  1. @DJTechnosapien

    October 2, 2024 at 7:05 am

    The answer is yes. Anything a mind can do, AI will be able to replicate with enough time

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    • @fburton8

      October 2, 2024 at 7:42 am

      Memories that can effectively be turned into words or pictures, yes, but what about memories of smell and feel. Wouldn’t the AI need to have some way of sensing these things like we do, and storing and accessing them with the same qualities as perceived or experienced by a person?

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  2. @ShanelShow

    October 2, 2024 at 7:24 am

    *Who love TRUMP 6 ?? 💖*

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  3. @padlockeussy

    October 2, 2024 at 7:51 am

    Humans are just organic AI

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  4. @lakenkennedy3800

    October 2, 2024 at 8:12 am

    This is a TON of fun to do with dreams and DallE.

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  5. @kindofbluenyc

    October 2, 2024 at 8:26 am

    Fascinating

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  6. @jackmen4

    October 2, 2024 at 8:47 am

    Ai will alter your memories.

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  7. @jordanetherington1922

    October 2, 2024 at 9:16 am

    We have photos and books and already existing storage mediums. LLMs are not helpful for this and cause massive environmental damage. Pass.

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  8. @mervinmarias9283

    October 2, 2024 at 9:37 am

    I suspect when age reversal therapies go mainstream, this is how people will keep their sanity.

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  9. @TheRealASN

    October 2, 2024 at 9:48 am

    We are on the edge of a digital afterlife option

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  10. @AdvantestInc

    October 2, 2024 at 11:21 am

    The intersection of AI and memory preservation opens up so many possibilities. It’s amazing to see how technology can help individuals reconnect with lost moments, especially for those affected by cognitive decline.

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  11. @Zenotes

    October 2, 2024 at 12:40 pm

    Esto solo funciona si tienes imagenes previas de alguien, menos no podria ya que su memoria al no conocerlos inconscientemente no despertara ningun recuerdo.

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  12. @nilsdula7693

    October 2, 2024 at 4:39 pm

    The subtitles are wrong at 10:44, it’s a quote in Catalan, not Spanish.

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