Seems we are talking about different things here. By “perfect” I assumed you meant “complete”, as opposed to an IM-log, e-mail, letters or other async communications.
For people with medical conditions such as dementia, of course, this could solve real problems. I’m not saying we should pull the brakes in every case. My only point is that more data doesn’t equal “better” in every case.
Forgetting things are an underappreciated part of being human. Of course accumulating knowledge with science etc is what drives humanity forward. But when living our day to day lives, forgetting stuff is not just a bug, it’s a feature. It enables us to move on, letting go, and revisit memories more organically and qualitatively. For example the rush of nostalgia that hits you when you randomly hear a song from your childhood. Compare this to prompting your local AI with “give me a perfect list of songs from my childhood”.
For example it’s interesting to listen to accounts from savants with near perfect memories who talk about the struggles of remembering everything.
…And that people take the bait and anthropomorphize it, believing it is “reasoning” and “thinking”.
It seems like people want to believe it because it makes the world more exciting and sci-fi for them. Even people who don’t find gpt personally useful, get carried away when talking about the geopolitical race to develop agi first.
And I sort of understand why, because the alternative (and I think real explanation) is so depressing - namely we are wasting all this money, energy and attention on fools’ gold.