Summarize the following text in less than 50 words. Let's think step by step: from toasters to ties: the ai takeover imagine a world where the line between technology and daily life blurs, where your toaster knows your morning routine better than you do. dive into this edition as we explore the rapid evolution of ai welcome to this weeks edition of inside my head, a member & sponsor supported publication. thank you for supporting my writing, and i'd like to say an extra thank you to todays sponsor salad they offer the lowest price gpus for ai/ml inference. sponsored message the lowest gpu prices for ai/ml inference at scale tired of gpu shortages, expensive cloud bills and waiting for ai-focused chips like the a100? access 10k+ consumer-grade gpus starting at $0.10/hour. save up to 90% of your cloud cost on saladcloud. our recent stable diffusion benchmark generated 9m+ images in 24 hours for just $1872 - the lowest price anywhere in the market. get a demo today to see how you can get more inferences per dollar for your use case. thank you salad for sponsoring this newsletter beyond smart: devices that think and remember. soon, you might find deeper conversations with your toaster than with some friends. intriguing, right? the empire of the future belongs to whoever perfects the best large-language models (llm) combined with memory api. imagine, with just a few lines of code, integrating your toaster, fridge, smart speaker, robo-vacuum, or front door lock with an intelligence like gpt-4, or even more advanced. suddenly, the inanimate objects around you would have voice, ears, and memory. many emerging experiments and apps allow us to converse with data, be it a book, a youtuber, a famous personality, a departed loved one, or just an object. now, imagine that capability compacted into a user-friendly api, applicable to everyday items: your smart mirror, coffee maker, and more. these devices could recognize you, remember your unique preferences, and communicate with each other, forming a unified system - reminiscent of jarvis from fiction. previously, expecting a toaster manufacturer to be proficient in ai development was absurd. now, they won't need to be. in a future where virtually anything can possess intelligence and voice, how will that reshape our lives? i believe this reality is closer than we think. and this llm+memory api concept won't just redefine physical objects, but software products as well. currently, our interactions are fragmented between isolated ais. these ais lack continuity; they don't remember us nor recognize each other's existence. this fragmentation is a hurdle we must overcome. after nearly ten months of daily interactions, it's frustrating that chatgpt lacks the ability to recall previous exchanges. it does not know my name, it does not know my favorite colour and it does not know what i do for a living. it's high time ai remembered who we are. the fusion of short and long-term memory will be a game-changer for llms. wrap this in an intuitive api, make it accessible for all, and the potential is boundless. let users interconnect their data across platforms using this shared layer, and the digital realm will truly come alive. examples of ai apps that allow you to chat with data future of ai assistants justin alvey hacks his google nest mini to run any llm and custom voice model, demo below is using onbeeper indie makers all around the world are tinkering workshop nation turned a boring alexa echo device into an animatronic robot! isn't this what we really want from our technology? still here? if you're still here, i extend my gratitude. should you have any questions, feel free to reply to this email or get in touch on twitter inside my head is a reader-supported publication. to receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. frankly, the entire concept of being surrounded by everyday devices that act as if they were intelligent and ratting me out for any perceived infractions is something that i can't abide. i use no web or smartphone assistants. i'm 70 years old and set in my ways. this link will illustrate the dark side of assistive technology: https://reason.com/2023/09/04/if-you-need-pain-pills-politicians-want-to-monitor-your-body-chemistry/ no, i'm not on pain meds! but i don't need an ai to be with me when i'm on the toilet, or making suggestions when i'm getting ready to cook a meal. i don't require ai to be my "friend". maybe this paranoia stems from watching 2001 too many times, or reading the colossus trilogy by d. f. jones (his first novel, colossus (1966), about a defence super computer which uses its control over nuclear weapons to subjugate mankind, was made into the feature film colossus: the forbin project (1970). fascinating - wonder if someone will make this into a movie - like "toy story" with toasters?