ChatGPT does not have “a memory.” It does not “remember” anything. OpenAI is just storing data about you and your engagement with its product. I’m begging the media to stop repeating tech companies’ misleading framings of their products.
For those who don’t see the issue: the anthropomorphism misleads people about what the tech does. It plays into the misconception that the chatbot is on the verge of replicating human intelligence. If you’ve been deceived about what the tech is, you can’t respond to it properly.
@parismarx @TJBreen ChatGPT stores data that allows it to recreate content of past interactions. That’s pretty much memory. Much more so than in the typical way people are already used to in the context of computing, when they buy a few GB of “computer memory”. Not sure what your beef is.
@parismarx Facts, GPT4 literally just said this to me
@parismarx The P in GPT stands for pre-trained, so it's not learning over time, either. The conversation and previous responses are just fed back in with each new request tacked on at the bottom.
Storing data about interaction with you sounds like memory in the traditional sense no? I agree most tech media doesn’t understand the technical but neither do their readers. Would you rather have them try to explain RAG and how that works? In which case you’d use the memory analogy. I agree with you on a technical basis, they’re def playing into the human-ness of AI but that’s marketing?