Since the beginning of last year, ChatGPT has had a memory. The generative AI is able to memorize various information about the user to offer more appropriate and precise responses. ChatGPT can remember important information from past exchanges, such as an allergy or a preferred response format, to avoid the user having to repeat them each time. While useful, this functionality has remained very limited. ChatGPT forgets things and can confuse conversations after a while.
ChatGPT will remember all your conversations
More than a year later, OpenAI has decided to make serious improvements to the artificial intelligence's memory. As OpenAI CEO Sam Altman explains on his X account, ChatGPT will "now reference all your past conversations.".
All exchanges between the user and the chatbot will now be used to improve the AI's responses. As you use ChatGPT, it will learn about you and calibrate its responses based on everything it knows about you.
For example, ChatGPT can remember that you're allergic to peanuts, and no longer include them in the recipes it suggests. To calibrate its responses, ChatGPT will rely on all of your exchanges, including conversations dating back to before 2024, and the deployment of the memory function.
This is a major evolution in AI memory. On this point, ChatGPT has indeed come a long way. In its early days, the chatbot was not always able to remember instructions communicated a few requests earlier. It was systematically necessary to remind it of important information or essential instructions.
A new button to use ChatGPT's memory
Furthermore, you can ask ChatGPT to construct its responses using only the information it has collected about you over the years. All you have to do is press a new button in the interface, called "Internal knowledge". Using this button, you can ask the AI to list your conversations from last weekend and analyze their themes over time.
In the example posted by OpenAI on X, the user realizes that they spend a lot of time worrying about their cat's mood and well-being. Furthermore, ChatGPT can help you determine if an activity is right for you, based on all your previous exchanges. By recording your exchanges, the AI can get a fairly accurate idea of who you are, your tastes, your desires, and your strengths and weaknesses.
Unsurprisingly, OpenAI allows you to disable ChatGPT's memory. Additionally, users are free to use ephemeral chats to prevent generative AI from saving data on their account.
An option not available in Europe
For now, the feature is reserved for subscribers to the ChatGPT Pro offer, at $200 per month. Soon, the new feature will be made available to users of ChatGPT Plus, the $20 per month subscription. There are apparently no plans to offer the feature on the free solution.
Unfortunately, OpenAI indicates that ChatGPT's new memory is not available in Europe, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. It is likely local data protection laws that are hindering the feature's deployment. The option raises serious privacy risks. Before rolling out the new product, the startup will need to ensure that it complies with the GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation.
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