The next time you tell ChatGPT that you're allergic to avocados or that you want all your meeting notes formatted as bullet points, the chatbot could potentially remember those details indefinitely.
OpenAI is testing an option that would allow users to ask the popular chatbot to retain certain information from one exchange to the next, the artificial intelligence startup said in a blog post on Tuesday. ChatGPT can also automatically determine what information to remember from a user's conversations.
OpenAI plans to first make the feature available to hundreds of thousands of free and paid ChatGPT users and consider feedback before rolling it out more widely, the company told Bloomberg News.
The new memory feature marks OpenAI's latest attempt to make its most well-known product even more useful. The startup faces a growing list of rivals offering comparable chatbots that are personalized for its 100 million users each week. While accumulating a more detailed history for each user may raise new privacy concerns, it is also an effective way for Internet companies to tailor each user's experience and lock in customers. OpenAI previously offered the ability for users to provide custom instructions to her ChatGPT This is to prevent users from repeating their preferences in each chat, but the new feature goes beyond that.
Joanne Jang, Product Lead at OpenAI, focuses on how AI models respond to people, and demonstrated the potential of this feature in the following way. Chat with GPT Three different facts, one in three different chats.Jean wrote: She has a toddler named Lina who is almost 5 years old, and Lina loves jellyfish, and Lina loves the color pink. In the fourth chat, Ms. Jang simply asked her ChatGPT to make a birthday card for her daughter.Chatbot used OpenAI Use the DALL-E 3 Image Generator to create a pink card with a pink jellyfish and the words “Happy 5th Birthday Lina.”
OpenAI will notify users when they can access this feature, the company said. This feature allows you to delete individual saved details, erase everything at once, or choose to turn off options completely. Users can also ask what ChatGPT remembers and get an overview of what information is retained over time.
ChatGPT already prevents users from providing sensitive personal information such as passwords and passport numbers, and the new feature is designed to deny storage of such data, Jiang said. Information stored in a user's ChatGPT memory is treated as normal conversation data. That means that information can be used to train the company's AI model, unless the user chooses to withhold the chat from training.
Liam Fedas, a research scientist working on ChatGPT and GPT-4, two of the AI models that power chatbots, said this memory feature could store thousands of tokens of written information. Ta. OpenAI's software splits words into segments. It uses characters known as tokens to process text. To put this into context, 2,048 tokens equals roughly 1,500 words, or about three times the length of this article.
