While Chatgpt has been running just fine in the almost two hours since the improved memory feature was announced, the service has not been without its power breaks in the last few weeks. Remarkably, the load of generation of images has caused some problems, including melting of GPUs.

Sam Altman posted to X and noted that ‘the use has gone in need over the past month’ for Openai, but that the team has been able to gather more resources. How? Well, he simply asked the internet.

He promised that speed limits and chatgpt speed would also improve.

Memory is not brand new to chatgpt

It’s worth pointing out that chatgpt could already remember and the AI ​​assistant has had a memory a bit.

Today’s upgrades are just that: an upgrade to the existing memory that is now being labeled as ‘new, improved memory’ of chatgpt.

The idea is that when you ask chatgpt for something, it can look back and refer to previous conversations to deliver more accurate and useful answers to what your inquiry may be. It’s kind of building a Rolodex about everything you’ve chatted with with it to help better help and answer any given request.

AI can pick up on trends on your own, but you can also directly ask chatgpt to remember something that you talk to it via entered text or when you are actually speaking in voice mode.

You know when your account has been upgraded with the smarter memory via this splash screen.

Again, it now rolls out for pro users, and plus subsidiarents get it shortly after. It is also confirmed that with chatgpt -team, business or education accounts they will receive the functionality in a few weeks.

We also have our first official look at how this improved memory in Chatgpt works, thanks to a teaser posted on the @openai X account.

In that we can see that when you ask, “What we were talking about this weekend,” it will summarize the topics discussed into ballpoints that have broken out during the day. Plus, you can then follow up as you would with any old chatgpt conversation, so you can ask if what you have discussed matches what you have discussed at any time in its remembered story.

You will be able to opt out of it

If the idea of ​​an AI chatbot that remembers everything you say doesn’t interest you, Openai has programmed two ways to bypass this within Chatgpt.

You can either opt out of the memory completely or use a new feature called temporary conversations. This allows you to start a new conversation that does not remember or affect the memory.

It is perhaps the best approach, especially if you are mostly on board with Sam Altman’s perception that AI systems need to get to know you.

While Chatgpt Pro subscribers have access to the improved memory right now, with a chatgpt plus plan, they should soon access.

Sam Altman sheds a little more light in an answer and notes that it should be in the next few days.

In a series of advertising posts on X (formerly Twitter), Altman showed that he considers this feature fall as a pretty big one.

Writing, “This is a surprisingly good feature imo, and it points to something we are excited about: AI systems that get to know you about your life and become extremely useful and personalized.”

Obviously, the team at Openai considers this a big step forward and ultimately a push towards making the AI ​​assistant and the chatbot even more useful. It also suggests the future of Openai, as a focus is to let these AI systems really get to know who it is to talk to. It could suggest future AI agents, much more advanced big-language models, and it was jerked hardware.

Now we are eager to try this new memory feature, but my colleague Lance Ulanoff-Techradar’s editor-in-large-chat-chatgpt plus account, does not yet have the memory feature or know it is a new feature.

However, this improvement may prove to be quite useful for reviewing conversations you have had with chatgpt without having to manually roll through them all.

The biggest change here, as Altman describes it, is that Chatgpt can now refer back to previous conversations you have had with the AI ​​assistant. Of course, this will be an opt-in feature and plays into the idea and search of AI producers-to AI should know a lot about you and ultimately become personal for your needs.

Openai also doesn’t waste time. Chatgpt’s improved memory feature is now rolling out for pro users in selected countries, excluding UK, EEA, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. It will eventually arrive at Plus subscribers, but there is no word about when this will hit free users.

Now right after noon

So here is the original post on X that started the train of something new from Openai today.