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Can AI preserve your most precious memories? | Pau Aleikum Garcia

2024/9/27
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Pau Aleikum Garcia：本演讲主要介绍了利用生成式AI技术重建记忆的项目"Synthetic Memories"。该项目旨在通过将人们模糊的记忆描述转化为图像或视频，帮助人们重新连接与过去的记忆，并探索其在改善认知能力、促进家庭联系和保护文化遗产方面的潜力。项目团队与老年痴呆症患者和他们的家人合作，通过实验发现，模糊的图像比超现实的图像更能唤起人们的情感共鸣，并帮助他们回忆起过去的经历。该技术不仅可以应用于治疗阿尔茨海默病等认知障碍疾病，还可以帮助那些因战争、政治迫害或自然灾害而失去记忆的人们重建他们的过去。未来，团队计划在巴塞罗那建立一个公共视觉记忆重建办公室，让更多的人能够参与到这个项目中来。

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Pau Aleikum Garcia shares an anecdote about Carmen, a 90-year-old woman who wished to visualize her earliest memory of her father in prison. Through generative AI, Carmen's memory was transformed into images, evoking strong emotions. This experiment highlights the potential of AI in creating "synthetic memories."
  • Synthetic memories are visual representations of undocumented or lost memories, created using AI.
  • Blurry, undefined images generated by early AI models are more effective in evoking emotional truth than hyperrealistic ones.

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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.