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Why nobody uses the “L” word anymore

People talked a lot about "lifelogging" when it was impossible. Once it became possible, everybody stopped using the word.

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Mike Elgan
Jun 14, 1985
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the ideal version of ChatGPT would be something you could “put your whole life into,” including “every conversation you’ve ever had in your whole life, every book you’ve ever read, every email you’ve ever read, everything you’ve ever looked at” — plus “all your other data from other sources.”

Armed with all that data, your pe…

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