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I disagree, what ai brings to thr table is instant and total recall of our thoughts/notes/experiences. Deep analysis of that vast data storage is only possible

by bzmrgonz 10mo ago

I disagree, what ai brings to thr table is instant and total recall of our thoughts/notes/experiences. Deep analysis of that vast data storage is only possible via ai, which should trigger the aha!!! Moment, or the "you're crazy ai" moment. Either way, it's very useful. And we haven't even talked about the knowl she we have collecting digital dust in emails, and notes and reports of past employees.

skydhash 10mo ago
There's a lot more dimension to the notes we take than what is actually written down. You can share your notes to other people and their interpretation would be very different to what you intended. It even happens with full books and articles. Even lots of metadata don't really help. Text is a very linear medium. It's just the spark while our wealth of experiences is the fuel. No amount of wrangling the word "pain" will compare to actually experiencing it. You'll better be served by just having a space repetition system for the notes you've taken. In this way, you'll be reminded of the whole experience when you took the note instead of reading words that were never written by someone who have lived.
skdhshdd 10mo ago
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rsynnott 10mo ago
Hrm. Pretty much every LLM summary I've seen of a document I've read, or a meeting I've attended, at absolute best misses important details and overemphasises trivia, and often just flat-out makes stuff up. I'm not sure I want my own _thoughts_ filtered through that.
- R_D_Olivaw 10mo ago
  Have you tried notebooklm at all? I'm actually pretty astonished by it's audio overviews and the insights/summaries it's able to do. Of course, with the right prompt massaging. But it's actually really really well done.
ben_w 10mo ago
AI at its best can be improvement on human recall, but even at its best it is not > instant and total recall of our thoughts/notes/experiences Closest is with vector searches & RAG etc., but even that isn't total recall because it will misclassify stuff with current SOTA. Throwing everything in a pile and hoping an LLM will sort it all out for you, is at present even more limited. They're good, sure, but you're overstating them.
coliveira 10mo ago
How is that different from using selecting a random portion of the archive? If all you want is a sudden remembrance that you maybe have forgotten, you don't need an AI to do that. It's just another complete irrelevant use of AI.

skydhash 10mo ago

There's a lot more dimension to the notes we take than what is actually written down. You can share your notes to other people and their interpretation would be very different to what you intended. It even happens with full books and articles. Even lots of metadata don't really help. Text is a very linear medium. It's just the spark while our wealth of experiences is the fuel. No amount of wrangling the word "pain" will compare to actually experiencing it. You'll better be served by just having a space repetition system for the notes you've taken. In this way, you'll be reminded of the whole experience when you took the note instead of reading words that were never written by someone who have lived.

skdhshdd 10mo ago

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rsynnott 10mo ago

Hrm. Pretty much every LLM summary I've seen of a document I've read, or a meeting I've attended, at absolute best misses important details and overemphasises trivia, and often just flat-out makes stuff up. I'm not sure I want my own _thoughts_ filtered through that.

R_D_Olivaw 10mo ago
Have you tried notebooklm at all? I'm actually pretty astonished by it's audio overviews and the insights/summaries it's able to do. Of course, with the right prompt massaging. But it's actually really really well done.

ben_w 10mo ago

AI at its best can be improvement on human recall, but even at its best it is not > instant and total recall of our thoughts/notes/experiences Closest is with vector searches & RAG etc., but even that isn't total recall because it will misclassify stuff with current SOTA. Throwing everything in a pile and hoping an LLM will sort it all out for you, is at present even more limited. They're good, sure, but you're overstating them.

coliveira 10mo ago

How is that different from using selecting a random portion of the archive? If all you want is a sudden remembrance that you maybe have forgotten, you don't need an AI to do that. It's just another complete irrelevant use of AI.