The guest shares their personal experience with hearing loss and how it led to the creation of their company. They introduce their product, Rewind, which utilizes AI to make users' screens searchable. They also discuss the shift from a meeting bot idea to capturing all memories and highlight the market demand for storing and accessing information.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dan Siroker, founder of Rewind AI, to talk about why he started the company (4:40), recording everything you do, see and read (7:10), living life on a “hot mic" (10:20), the pendant (12:45), bringing Black Mirror to life (17:00), AI as cognitive butler (23:45), growing up surrounded by tech in Palo Alto (28:00), working on the Obama campaign (29:00), making mistakes at other companies (34:00), his view of Sam Altman (37:35), how he uses Rewind (43:00), and dealing with the hallucination problem (44:30).
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