Thinking about AI and particularly memory retention overnight and a lot of the problems with memory is that as you get older there’s more to remember. Makes sense.
It’s a math problem of too much information and limited bandwidth and storage capacity.
When you’re younger, everything is in order, coloured coded, assorted, associated and all lined up on the shelf but eventually some stuff just get shoved aside or mixed with other stuff in the wrong box or just slips off the shelf altogether.
Now and again we need a defrag and just like around the house, a declutter with a lot of your physical junk dumped on the footpath for a council pickup.
Technology hasn’t helped either. It’s made us lazy and less disciplined. With smart phones, things we used to remember, like phone numbers and names are now stored and you don’t have too remember.
They’re all stored offsite. Like in your pocket, on your phone. Just ask Siri to call the number or plot the navigation on a trip or anything.
When your phone or laptops storage capacity is at or near its limit you can expand capacity and free up space and delete or download to an external hard drive or upload all your photos, passwords, docs and folders to Bitwarden, Dropbox or iCloud.
But what bout your brain??
With technology increasing at warp speed with the development and deployment of AI as an example and into every aspect of our lives, I suspect the next shoe to drop will be for a Musk, Google or Apple to develop the 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩, 𝐢𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 (𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬).
The iBrain will allow all our non physical accumulated junk, names, places, people, events, emotions, memories and deepest darkest secrets and stuff we’d forgotten we ever knew, to be uploaded and stored offsite for eternity.
We live forever.
Think of it as a Kennards in the cloud for the cerebellum, hippocampus, neocortex and amygdala.
Discuss…