How Tali's Brain Works

When you tell Tali something worth keeping, she doesn't drop it into one long list. She files it into a part of a brain, a bit like yours does. Facts go one place, people go another, lessons somewhere else again. It sounds like a gimmick until you need to find something, and then it's just tidy.

This is a plain walk through what goes where, and what you can do about it.

The parts she fills as you talk

• Hippocampus: facts and events. Your business hours, the day you signed a new client, the price you settled on.
• Temporal lobe: the people in your world, and what she knows about each of them.
• Cerebellum: lessons and mistakes. A lesson that keeps holding up becomes proven.
• Frontal lobe: rules and preferences she sticks to, including the big one: nothing goes out without your yes.
• Prefrontal cortex: plans, ideas, your live goals and the decisions you haven't made yet.
• Amygdala: anything urgent, and contradictions for you to settle.
• Occipital lobe: what she saw in photos and screenshots you sent, and the images she made for you.

The parts that keep her running

Some parts aren't memories so much as machinery. The parietal lobe is what she can feel, meaning your email and your calendar. The hypothalamus is her schedule: the morning brief, health checks, the end of day shutdown and night school. The thalamus files every new memory into the right part, and the brainstem keeps every memory searchable.

When two memories disagree

People change their minds. If you told Tali in March that you'd never work Saturdays and in June that Saturdays are now your busiest day, she shouldn't quietly pick one. A new memory that contradicts an old one lands in the amygdala, and you settle it on the Brain screen: keep the new one, keep the old one, or say both are true.

You can see all of it

Open the Brain screen, tap a part and read what she keeps there. Anything you don't want her to remember, you delete. That matters more than any clever filing. An assistant that remembers you is only comfortable if you can check what it remembers.

What gets shared, and what never does

Tali also keeps a shared brain of general business lessons that every user's Tali learns from. Lessons from night school, and lessons, mistakes and rules that have proven themselves in your chats, may be added to it. Before anything is shared it's rewritten as a general lesson with no names, clients, places, prices or contact details, and it's left out if it can't be made general.

Your facts, people, events, photos, journal and chats are never shared. Sharing is on by default, and you can switch it off in Tali HQ under Me, Settings, Help every Tali learn. The privacy policy has the detail.

If you'd like to see the brain before you sign up, there's a demo with made up memories on the Tali HQ page. Spin it, tap a part, and have a look around.