ChatGPT maker OpenAI is testing a version of its chatbot that remembers what users tell it. ChatGPT can even use that information in subsequent conversations, the company said Tuesday.
Not all users will get the new memory feature right now, but a broader rollout is coming soon. You’ll have the option to adjust the items that ChatGPT remembers or turn off the memory entirely.
“Remembering things you discuss across all chats saves you from having to repeat information and makes future conversations more helpful,” the company said in a statement that emphasized it’s leaving control of the chatbot’s memory in user hands. “You can explicitly tell it to remember something, ask it what it remembers, and tell it to forget conversationally or through settings.”
ChatGPT was introduced by OpenAI in late 2022, and in just a few months, it reached 100 million monthly users, setting the record for the fastest-growing consumer application in history. The chatbot and similar programs have kept AI in the headlines, whether for helping Paul McCartney create the final Beatles song or for more controversial uses. Recently, the FCC stepped in to ban AI-faked voices in robocalls. AI even showed up in some of the commercials shown during the Super Bowl, where one ad showed how AI helps people with impaired vision take photos by telling them if a face is out of the frame.
But it’s ChatGPT that first comes to the mind of many people when they think of AI, making the addition of memory newsworthy.
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What things will ChatGPT remember?
When memory is on, the chatbot will remember your preferences and any facts that you’ve shared with it. For example, it might remember the format in which you want your meeting notes summarized or that your child loves jellyfish and might use one on a birthday card.
ChatGPT previously used a simpler form of memory, The New York Times notes, but that memory used only information shared…
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