Sam Altman’s goal for ChatGPT to remember ‘your whole life’ is both exciting and disturbing

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a big vision for the future of ChatGPT at an AI event hosted by VC firm Sequoia earlier this month. When asked by one attendee about how ChatGPT can become more personalized, Altman replied that he eventually wants the model to document and remember everything in a person’s life. The ideal, he said, is a “very tiny reasoning model with a trillion tokens of context that you put your whole life into.” “This model can reason across your whole context and do it efficiently. And every conversation you’ve ever had in your life, every book you’ve ever read, every email you’ve ever read, everything you’ve ever looked at is in there, plus connected to all your data from other sources. And your life just keeps appending to the context,” he described. “Your company just does the same thing for all your company’s data,” he added. Altman may have some data-driven reason to think this is ChatGPT’s natural future. In that same discussion, when asked for cool ways y ... Read full article.