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Artificial Memory Web - Summer of Protocols

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Four hundred years before the term artificial intelligence emerged, debates about the development of “artificial memory” stirred. In contrast to the idea of natural memory, artificial memory involves using aids to help us remember. These include internal aids like memorization techniques that enrich personal memory and external aids like encyclopedias that enrich societal memory. The earliest known artificial memory includes practices like Chinese room mnemonics, associating spaces with concepts, and Australian Aboriginal songlines, associating verses with landscapes. However, not everyone saw the development of artificial memory in a positive light. In 1530, the eclectic physician Cornelius Agrippa cautioned against it: Artificial memory would not be able to last for the briefest second without natural memory . . . [Artificial memory], by overburdening the natural memory with innumerable images of words and things, can lead those who are not content with the limits imposed upon them b

Artificial Memory Web - Summer of Protocols Skip to content Artificial Memory Web Josh Davis 2024-03-13T21:39:33+00:00 Artificial Memory and Orienting Infinity Kei Kreutler F our hundred years before the term artificial intelligence emerged, debates about the development of “artificial memory” stirred. In contrast to the idea of natural memory, artificial memory involves using aids to help us remember. These include internal aids like memorization techniques that enrich personal memory and external aids like encyclopedias that enrich societal memory. The earliest known artificial memory includ

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