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"Centralized Data Access: The Key to Efficiency and Utility"

Dec 4, 2023 - 12:38pmSummary: The speaker wants their data to be centralized and easily accessible across different platforms, including Spotify, iCloud, and iMessages. They believe that having a central AI agent with access to all their data would allow for better understanding and utility. They express frustration at the current fragmentation of their data and the lack of control over it. They also highlight the potential business value of having a centralized data repository and the limitations posed by the current decentralized setup. Finally, they acknowledge that their thoughts on the matter may not be fully formed, but express a desire to explore these ideas further.

Transcript: Just a note on, at least for me, one thing I am looking for, which is the defragmentation of my data. And by having this AI agent effectively in so many arenas, whether it be my Spotify data, my iCloud data, my photos that are going in there, iMessages that I'm sending to my friends, you know, my calendar. All of these things, voice notes, whatever, I think giving this brain that much context probably enables it to... Probably enables it to, I guess, understand you and things and what you want much better. Maybe this is me just being a little bit too crazy and fucking out there, but I fucking hate fragmentation of data. It drives me insane. I wish I had better control of my data because if I could ask it more questions, it would be way more useful to me in the sense that also from a business perspective, well, if I had an aggregate of my data somewhere. Now, if other people want to ask me questions on that data, over that data set, they can have their individual slice of the data if they're producing it. But what if you want to ask bigger questions, questions in aggregate of that data? It needs to be stored somewhere centrally to be able to do that effectively. And the fact that we do not have that is a massive problem for learning, generally speaking. And those learnings and insights, I suspect, could be used for business as well. This is a whole bigger question. I don't know if what I'm saying here makes sense, like, cognitively. I don't really know exactly what I'm saying here, but it is something that I wish to develop further.

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