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A few days ago, Openai announced an “memory” update for chatgpt: You will begin to remember all our conversations Already take them into account when giving us an answer. No four inferred pieces as before: All our history.
Well, it wasn’t even Openai who announced it. Was Sam Altman in Xas who does not want the thing. Openai focused those days on giving a court to a GPT 4.1 Much less transcendent for the user. And a few days later, Grok announced the same movement.
The new super memory (not yet available to the European Union) is a total change in the use we give to Chatgpt. And to a lesser extent, to Grok, who does not have a lower professional utility.
We are no longer facing a tool that we use and abandonbut before a digital entity with which we have an evolutionary conversation. A relationship.
Let’s think about how we use a hammer, a calculator or even Google: we use them to solve a problem and then forget them until the next time we need them.
There is no evolution in our interaction with them.
On the other hand, our relationship with another person is contrasted on a cluster of previous interactions. We do not expect to have to remind a friend what team we are, or our partner what music we like. There is something deeply human in wanting to be rememberedto desire continuity in our interactions.
The IAS that offer this experience will have an advantage not only technical and functional, but also psychological. Each conversation with chatgpt – at the margin of the utility of the GPTS– It will no longer be an eternal first day, but the continuation of a thread of shared knowledge.
- An assistant who remembers your allergy to nuts.
- Which understands that you like explanations with sports analogies.
- Who knows that you are working on an important personal project.
On face B of the album, the concerns that it provokes to deposit so much about ourselves in an entity controlled by a company. Persistent memory offers extreme customization, but it also costs us A privacy toll.
Openai says that you can deactivate this function, but the value of the service decreases if you do. It is a usual dilemma for any user of modern services.
It will also exist for some The subtle temptation to replace human interactions – Sometimes frustrating – for more predictable interactions with an AI designed to please us.
The AI never tired, never has a bad day, never judges our repetitive questions or laughs if we ask something too basic. It is an idealized company version that could be too attractive to some, especially for those who feel alone.
It is the first stone of A new type of software that asks for another type of relationship. And we are not accustomed to something like that. It is not useful to treat it as another human, but neither as the classic tools. Another conceptual category will need.
Chatgpt will know us better than many of our friends and family. It will be something that maintains the thread of our thoughts throughout weeks, months and years. A constant presence that will evolve with us, which will even anticipate our desires.
Chatgpt will no longer be a tool, but something much more intimate and personal. Almost alive.
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