AWMT #3: A revamped Memex is here
Hi everyone, sorry we’ve been quiet the last couple weeks. We’ve been working hard, and are happy to share with you a revamped version of Memex, available today!
It's available to download from the links below. Once downloaded, drag Memex into your Applications folder to override the old one. Going forward all updates will be available via the auto update.
This update to the Private Preview continues to be free to use! Just sign-up in the app and you’ll be up and running.
Some highlights, most of which were driven by your feedback:
🔍 Search: Memex can now access the web for up to date data, facts and information.
🎮 User Interface updates. We’ve moved a lot of the technical output of Memex to be behind a dropdown. You can still see it if you want, but the conversations are now more streamlined and easy to follow. This applies to code, shell, and searches.
🧠 New models: Memex now comes with Claude 3.5 Sonnet as default. You can change it to GPT-4o as needed, and we expect to continue adding more models that we see perform well. Also, no more manual model API keys management! Just open the app and you’ll be up and running
🗂️ Project management. When starting a conversation, you’ll be asked to create a project or select an existing one. This makes it easier to stay organized, and keeps environments clean,
Other miscellaneous speed and usability improvements, including automatic progression and less failure modes.
We’ve updated our website with four new 2 minute demos that demonstrate different examples and ways to use Memex.
We are excited for you to take it for a spin and let us know how it goes!
When will AI outthink humans?
This is the question our CEO David explored in his latest personal blog post. We wanted to share a small snippet and share a link to the full post:
The concept of artificial intelligence has piqued our imaginations and challenged our sense of humanity since its conception over 70 years ago. For decades we have made predictions that intelligent machines will transform society. In some ways, they have. In others, they haven’t.
Instead of considering whether AI will be “transformative”, in this post I consider a specific question: when will AI outthink humans — in terms of volume of thought?
More specifically, I’m framing the concept of “outthinking” in two orthogonal dimensions: the volume of tokens and intelligence of tokens. And I only consider the former in this post.
That’s it for this version of As We May Think!
Remember to join our Discord to be part of the community and get support, as well as explore our documentation.