ChatGPT Is Getting Humanlike Memory

AI is about to get really personal.

By Rick Richardson
Technology This Week

As it gets better at remembering your preferences, interests and personal information, ChatGPT is starting to resemble your most reliable assistant. It will even use these memories in subsequent conversations. A minor change like this might give generative AI a more human appearance and possibly open the door to general artificial intelligence (general AI), which would allow an AI brain to function more like the gray matter in your brain.

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The restricted test was published by OpenAI in a blog post, wherein it was explained that the purpose of the test was to evaluate ChatGPT’s (both the free and ChatGPT Plus versions) memory of your messages across all chats.

Posted on April 2, 2024

Rick Richardson

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Rick Richardson, CPA.CITP, CGMA, is the CEO and founder of Richardson Media & Technologies and editor and publisher of Technology This Week, regularly featured at CPA Trendlines under special arrangement.

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