Gen AI Chatbots Are Starting to Remember You. Should You Let Them?

Until recently, generative AI chatbots didn't have the best memories: You tell it something and, when you come back later, you start again with a blank slate. Not anymore. OpenAI started testing a stronger memory in ChatGPT last year and rolled out improvements this month. Grok, the flagship tool of Elon Musk's xAI, also just got a better memory. It took significant improvements in math and technology to get here but the real-world benefits seem pretty simple: You can get more consistent and personalized results without having to repeat yourself. "If it's able to incorporate every chat I've had before, it does not need me to provide all that information the next time," said Shashank Srivastava, assistant professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Those longer memories can help with solving some frustrations with chatbots but they also pose some new challenges. As with when you talk to a person, what you said yesterday might influence your inte ... Read full article.