OpenAI is giving ChatGPT a reminiscence improve that enables it to recall outdated conversations that you simply didn’t ask it to save lots of.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 aim to develop “AI methods that get to know you over your life.”
This builds on the “Reminiscence” function that was added to ChatGPT final yr, which allowed restricted data like queries, prompts, and customizations to be retained and used for future responses. With the long-term reminiscence replace, ChatGPT will now recall data in two methods — utilizing the “saved reminiscences” 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 accordance with OpenAI.
The replace can be obtainable in every single place besides within the EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein, probably on account of these areas having tight AI rules that Altman has objected to prior to now. It’s presently being rolled out to customers paying for ChatGPT’s $200 month-to-month Professional subscription and can be obtainable “quickly” for $20 Plus subscribers, in accordance with Altman. OpenAI additionally says it will likely be obtainable to Workforce, 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.
Reminiscence is an elective function for ChatGPT. Customers who don’t need the chatbot to save lots of any conversations can toggle off saved reminiscences below the ChatGPT personalization settings, or use the momentary chat perform to ask it inquiries that received’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 supply extra personalised or related responses.
