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Ask Rewind — What if you had perfect memory?
What if you had perfect memory? What if you could ask any question about anything you've seen said or heard?
Well, now you can.
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@dsiroker Hey Dan, absolutely love this. Have been using Rewind for a long time now and was one of the first things I asked Brett for. Any chances you're also working on an API? I'm a dev and have lots of things I want to integrate Rewind into.
@dsiroker This sounds like an incredibly helpful tool for anyone looking to improve their memory and productivity. Being able to search through all of your past experiences is impressive, but the introduction of ChatGPT takes it to the next level. Excited to see how this will evolve!
@dsiroker @alex9414 So grateful for your feedback! Be the first to know if we launch an API by filling out this form here: https://rewindai.typeform.com/to...
@dsiroker @jorexnovik Thanks George! Couldn't agree more myself. So excited to have you along for the journey!
@dsiroker @elijah_kleinsmith Thanks for sharing Elijah. Can't wait for you to try it out!
I've been waiting for this my entire (digital) life.
I've been using the likes of Notion and notes and calendar to just keep track of everything.
Very very excited about this!
Also very interested in how privacy will be handled!
@joao_miguel_dordio I can't wait for you to try it out. We take a privacy-first approach. Here's how it works:
1. When you ask a question, only the text of the most relevant moments from your past are sent to GPT-4 to generate an answer.
2. GPT-4 processes your question and the text of the relevant moments, and an answer is sent back to Rewind.
3. Rewind processes the answer and provides links to local recorded data for you to view as sources.
Learn more at https://rewind.ai/privacy-first
@praveen_kj2 Hi Praveen. No audio, image, or video files ever leave your machine. ChatGPT for Me only sends relevant text-based data to the cloud and none of it is retained.
Here's how it works:
1. When you ask a question, only the text of the most relevant moments from your past are sent to GPT-4 to generate an answer.
2. GPT-4 processes your question and the text of the relevant moments, and an answer is sent back to Rewind.
3. Rewind processes the answer and provides links to local recorded data for you to view as sources.
Does that alleviate your concern?
Hey @brettbejcek Thanks for replying back. Much appreciated. :)
Can you please explain a bit more on the first point? like how "ChatGPT for me" will get the most relevant moment text from my past?
@brettbejcek @praveen_kj2
As someone who is active in the field I can jump in :)
The retrieval of relevant text passages happens by:
1. Create a semantically meaningful vector representation (=embedding) of both your question and of all your past "memories"
2. Compute the pairwise embedding similarity (cosine typically) for your question and all pieces of memory
3. Retrieve the top-k best matches of memory in plain text
This is known as Semantic Retrieval for Question Answering Applications.
Hope that helps! :)
@praveen_kj2 Hi there Praveen! Great question. Rewind helps you find anything you've seen, said, or heard by capturing your screen, mic, and speakers. All recordings stay local to your machine. You can read more about our privacy-first approach here: https://rewind.ai/privacy-first
When you ask ChatGPT for Me a question, will query all the things you've seen, said, or heard for the most relevant context.
@nickmilo Hi there Nick! So glad to have you watching!
We take a privacy-first approach. No audio, video, or image files ever leave your Mac. Here's how it works:
1. When you ask a question, only the text of the most relevant moments from your past are sent to GPT-4 to generate an answer.
2. GPT-4 processes your question and the text of the relevant moments, and an answer is sent back to Rewind.
3. Rewind processes the answer and provides links to local recorded data for you to view as sources.
You can learn more here: https://www.rewind.ai/privacy-first
This is insane! Such amazing innovation! However, I do wonder whether my private information, such as seed phrases or private keys exposed on a screen, would be safe in my local drive.
@andrew_cho Great question! Rewind takes a privacy-first approach and gives you many controls. You can:
- Exclude apps from being captured
- Encrypt your data using FileVault
- Pause capturing at any point
- Delete any moment
- Choose how long your Rewind data stays around on your machine
Read more about all the features we have built around this here: https://www.rewind.ai/privacy-first
This is amazing! I've been using Rewind since the start and have derived great value from it but this changes the game entirely. Super excited to try this out 🔥
💡 Bright idea
In my mind, this is the perfect evolution of Rewind. It’s the thing that takes it from cool piece of tech to “can’t remember how I functioned without it” sort of territory.
At the moment Rewind is a very impressive application, techincally speaking. With the compression, low resource usage etc. and it has certainly helped me a few times to find things I’ve recently lost and get some in person meetings transcribed easily. Or just now when I closed this text box without submitting this comment...
Where it falls down, is that it’s quite difficult to find something from a while ago, unless you know EXACTLY what the text was. The searches are incredibly literal, so typing in “Amazon new phone" will return all the web pages and apps with mentions of “Amazon", and even some similar words like “amazing" - there’s no contextual understanding. It’s like Rewind has got incredible memory but limited recall and understanding. And the likelihood is if I know exactly what the text was, I don’t need to search it. It makes it a cool but quite limited tool at present.
ChatGPT for Me, however, looks like it will solve that recall part, and turn Rewind.ai into an indispensable tool. I can’t help but feel it should be named and separated like that. Rewind.ai Memory is the app as it is today, saves and records everything. This new addition is Rewind.ai Recall (maybe with ChatGPT for Me as a strapline). That seems to me a good explanation to the two halves.
By extension it really then becomes your second brain. That’s a term that a million note apps have used, but you still have to input to those note apps. Rewind is just absorbing things, connecting them, making them retrievable, like an actual brain. You’re not specifically categorising things i.e. you wouldn’t think “I must create a task to do the cleaning” and input a mental checkbox against, you just know it’s a task that you need to complete.
It would be interesting to build on that premise with intelligent natural language e.g. “find that new phone case I was looking at last week on amazon” and it pulls it right up. Or “I need to buy Mum a birthday card for Saturday” and it just knows that it’s a task that should be completed before Saturday and logs it. Even better if it intelligently sends that into other tools like task managers.
Super excited.
@richinapps Wow. I love this! Thanks for sharing. Can't wait for you to try it out :)
Congratulations on the launch, Dan. Looks super useful. From where does the tool takes this data from? How are you taking into account the privacy issues and related inhibitions people might have?
@jareer_samad Hi there! Great question. Rewind is a macOS app that captures anything you've seen, said, or heard. For your privacy, your screen and audio recordings are stored locally and NEVER leave your Mac. Compression, Automated Speech Recognition (ASR), and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) all happen locally.
You can use Rewind without using ChatGPT for Me. You can search for any keywords you've seen or heard OR you can navigate your computer in a new dimension: time, and scroll back to any point. Rewind is available for download here: https://download.rewind.ai/Rewin...
If you choose to use ChatGPT for Me, Rewind scours for the smallest set of relevant data to send to the cloud, and it’s only sent as text. None of it is retained. You can learn more about our privacy first approach here: https://www.rewind.ai/privacy-first
Rewind concept blew my mind the first time I heard about it but interfacing it with NLP, now this is truly crazy 🤯
Just downloaded Rewind and loved the slick product tour. Can't wait to try out ChatGPT for me!
@pascal_weinberger Thank you Pascal! We've all been having the time of our lives over here building this.
Holy crap! I’ve been using Rewind for months now and it has been incredibly useful but this completely changes the game. So excited to try this!
@ajsharp Thank you!! Yes! We are heads down working as hard as we can to give everyone access.
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