Evernote tests neural implant that records daily experiences as event vectors

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Going right back to the beginnings of Evernote, the goal has always been to remember everything. The biggest issue with this has been the human element. Unless we physically capture something into Evernote its not going to be remembered.

Not any more.

The research team at Evernote are working on an embedded neural chip called EVE (Event Vector Encoder) that will automatically record all events that happen during your day and record them in Evernote.

As you go through the motions of your day all the events that happen will automatically be transmitted to your phone and stored in Evernote.

The second stage is where it gets clever.

A custom built AI algorithm called EVE-MIND (Event Vector Multimodal Interpretation & Narrative Decoder) turn the vectors into your life story.

I spoke to Dr. Penelope Trunkman, Chief Research Officer at Evernote who told me “For the first time, human experience is natively machine-readable. With EVE capturing life as structured event vectors and our AI interpretation stack turning that signal into coherent narrative memory, we’ve essentially replaced ‘I think I remember’ with ‘I can retrieve.’ It’s not just note-taking, it’s a firmware upgrade for the concept of never forgetting.“

Imagine all of your day to day interactions being recorded automatically, all meetings, even the quick chat at the coffee shop. Everything will be in Evernote for you to retrieve later.

For those worried about privacy, a simple voice command of “EVE pause” will stop the recording. Just saying “EVE continue” will kick off the vector recording again.

Dr Penelope told me “Right now, we’re at the stage of embedding the chips in mice and it’s only caused a few strokes. We hope to start human trials later this year”

This technology sounds amazing and I’m thinking of putting my name down for the trials. If Evernote can make the process a simple injection of the EVE chip into the brain and then the phone app does all the recording, we could be on to a winner.

I did ask Dr Penelope what EVE-MIND made of the memories of the mice that survived and she told me their thoughts were mainly about cheese and how to avoid Tom.

What do you think of this revolutionary tech? Leave me a comment.

I think the best advice I could give anyone right now is to check the date.

Have a great rest of the week

All the best

Jon