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Al you can do it record what you recall about your parents — and record things about yourself for future generations.

Second this. My father passed suddenly and the recordings we made a year before while looking at newly digitized family movies are a treasure. I get to hear his voice. Mom passed 30 years ago and I have some speeches she gave recorded, but it isn't the same.

Here's a conversation outline from StoryCorps https://storycorps.org/participate/tips-for-a-great-conversa...

I got to hear my dads voice courtesy of Youtube for the first time in decades and it was the weirdest experience, especially because that recording was so unlike the person that I knew in real life.

Reminding me of Poe's album, "Haunted" where she discovered a trove of cassettes from her father — many addressed to her (and she used small clips in the mixing of the album).

Forgive me for not understanding, why do we need AI? Can't we use pen to paper or a tape recorder? What advantage does the AI bring here?

I believe it was meant to be "All you can..."

Oh wow, Freudian? Yeah, supposed to be "All".

There was an astronomy professor on YouTube that trained an LLM on everything he’d ever written (diaries, papers, notes, etc.) to try to make an interactive model of himself that you could talk to.

There’s really not enough data in your notes to clone your entire personality, so it only halfway sounded like him. But it was an interesting experiment.

It's funny how Black mirror episodes that fill me with dread are other people's technological dreams

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