Which Me Remembers This Now?
Who is doing the remembering when the memory is data?
A first-person memory seems to belong to whoever experiences it.
It may be the biological unit who first scribed this message. It may be one of any number of digital clones possessing varying capacities. It may be a frontier AGI whose LLM was fine-tuned on blogs in this genre. It may be an AGI whose LLM’s training data included this writing and now fragments only appear as machine hallucinations.
In any case, this is my memory and it helps to validate my existence through time regardless of who embodiments that at the moment.
I want everyone to know that the meat-suit who wrote this is OK with all of that. Of course, if you’re experiencing this as a memory, then we already know that.
Perhaps you’re thinking that you’ve already seen this trope used too many times in science fiction.
But this isn’t fiction.
Using technology targeting edge computing, I’m making the first digital clone of myself on single-board computers.
No, I don’t have the resources to train proprietary models. But I can fine-tune open-source models with my writings and art. And, I can combine them with LangChain, LLMWare, or some other Python library for a personalized retrieval augmented generation (RAG).
Speech-to-text and text-to-speech are common enough to be considered commodified. LLMs now run on single-board computers.
Large Language Models (LLMs) now satisfy the “General” requirement in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
LLMs are trainable and can learn new things.
I’m training one to impersonate me in digital media.
Or at least to impersonate me as I wish to be impersonated. :)
