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While AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini may impress with their ability to read and write, they’re not perfect. Along with their habit to hallucinate and their pernicious issues with bias, the technology also has a pretty basic problem holding it back: memory.
Anyone who has played around with ChatGPT for more than a few hours knows that, after a while, the bot begins acting strangely—forgetting earlier parts of the conversation and even crashing entirely on occasion. This creates a big hurdle for users who rely on the bots for work like coders, or for creative uses like writing or even playing Dungeons and Dragons.
Luckily, those issues might soon be nothing but bad memories. OpenAI announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it’s testing out a new feature that allows ChatGPT to remember specific details to “make future chats more helpful.” Users can “tell it to remember something, ask it what it remembers, and tell it to forget” via a chat conversation or the chatbot’s settings.