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As Jensen used a window screen to sift the safe’s ashen contents for diamonds and stones, his wife Dawn DaMart wandered the blackened foundation searching for tokens of the couple’s life before the Mountain fire.

“That’s where my shower used to be,” she told Phillip Federis, 36, her friend’s grandson who took the day off from work to sift through the ashes.

As the battle for the future of search heats up, the rise of AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT that can quickly summarize search results has the potential to reshape how people find and sift through information online.

They then wash, dry and sift through it looking for diamonds until sunset.

It takes so much time to sift through all your messy, likely disorganized files, to pick and choose the most important ones, to hook up and sync the external drive, and to transfer everything to that black box, which you’ll likely protect with some login credentials and stow away in some drawer.