OpenAI is giving ChatGPT a reminiscence improve that enables it to recall outdated conversations that you simply didn’t ask it to save lots of. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned on X that the chatbot can “now reference all of your previous conversations,” and that the replace aligns with the corporate’s objective to develop “AI programs that get to know you over your life.”
This builds on the “Memory” characteristic that was added to ChatGPT final yr, which allowed restricted info like queries, prompts, and customizations to be retained and used for future responses. With the long-term reminiscence replace, ChatGPT will now recall info in two methods — utilizing the “saved recollections” that customers have manually requested it to recollect, and “reference chat historical past,” that are “insights ChatGPT gathers from previous chats to enhance future ones,” in line with OpenAI.
The replace will likely be out there in every single place besides within the EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein, probably attributable to these areas having tight AI laws that Altman has objected to prior to now. It’s at present being rolled out to customers paying for ChatGPT’s $200 month-to-month Pro subscription and will likely be out there “quickly” for $20 Plus subscribers, in line with Altman. OpenAI additionally says will probably be out there to Team, Enterprise, and Edu customers “in just a few weeks,” however there’s no phrase on when — or if — it would roll out to free customers.
Memory is an non-compulsory characteristic for ChatGPT. Users who don’t need the chatbot to save lots of any conversations can toggle off saved recollections beneath the ChatGPT personalization settings, or use the non permanent chat operate to ask it inquiries that gained’t use or have an effect on reminiscence. ChatGPT’s reminiscence improve follows an analogous replace that Google made to Gemini AI in February that enables it to recall older conversations to offer extra personalised or related responses.
