Today, OpenAI officially announced a major update to ChatGPT, adding memory capabilities and new user control options.
OpenAI says that GPT can now remember all the information about your interaction in a chat with a user and use that information in subsequent conversations to provide more relevant and personalized responses.
Memory function: ChatGPT can remember things discussed by users across all chats, reducing the need for users to provide information repeatedly and making future conversations more useful.
User control: Users can tell ChatGPT to remember something, ask it what it remembered, tell it to forget something through conversations or Settings, or even turn off memory entirely.
How it works: When chatting with ChatGPT, users can ask it to remember specific information or let it capture details on its own, ChatGPT’s memory improves with increasing use, and users will gradually notice this improvement.
Privacy and security standards: Memory capabilities bring additional privacy and security considerations, and OpenAI takes steps to assess and mitigate bias and to avoid ChatGPT actively remembering sensitive information unless explicitly requested by the user.