I use AI every day, but I’ve noticed something strange about so many AI tools: the more they remember about you, the less you have to recall on your own. Whether it's an AI notetaker or even enabling ChatGPT's memory, it seems like outsourcing information to AI could mean forgetting more as a human.
In other words, instead of storing information in our own brains, we're hoping AI remembers it and we're calling it "being productive." So when I came across a simple memory idea that Elon Musk shared a few years ago on the Full Send podcast, I wanted to test it.
The concept is simply that people remember information better when it feels relevant. If the brain understands why something matters, it’s more likely to hold onto it. That made me wonder: instead of using ChatGPT as a storage unit, could I use it to help me make Elon Musk's memory hack work for me?
