96 | Chatbots Who Know You
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One of the very common questions posted by folks who are becoming comfortable using AI chatbots like ChatGPT is: “How can I make it sound more like me?” There have been various suggested approaches, including uploading lots of samples of your writing, audio, or video. A new announcement from OpenAI shows promise to simplify the answer — just let it learn!1
ChatGPT Memory
ChatGPT Plus (the $20/month paid version) recently gained a feature referred to as “Memory.” I asked ChatGPT to describe how this new capability can automatically enable ChatGPT to sound more like me in its writing. Here’s its response:
The new ChatGPT Memory feature enhances how the AI can adapt to your personal style of communication and preferences over time. As you interact with ChatGPT, it can remember key details you choose to share, such as your interests, preferences, and the way you like information to be presented.
For instance, if you tend to prefer concise explanations without too much technical jargon, ChatGPT can adjust its responses accordingly. Similarly, if you often ask about specific topics, like music or technology, it can remember these interests and bring them up relevantly in future conversations, making interactions feel more tailored and personal.
In terms of sounding like you, the memory feature allows ChatGPT to mimic your tone or style more closely. If you typically use a casual and straightforward communication style, ChatGPT will remember and reflect this in its responses. This makes the interaction more comfortable and natural, as if you were speaking with a well-acquainted friend or assistant who understands your unique communication preferences.
Working in concert with ChatGPT custom instructions, which are available to all ChatGPT users, this illustrates the promise of future AI to be able to automagically mimic the creative output you might personally generate. At present, it takes just a little prompting from you to figure out the appropriate style. For example, if you include in your prompt something like, “Can you help me draft a formal email?” it will apply its Memory of what you are like when in a formal setting. But if you prompt “I need help with a personal message to my good friend,” the Memory of your writing style in that context will apply.
These capabilities in ChatGPT are raw and evolving, but demonstrate some of the promise of generative AI not only to create useful content at the drop of a prompt, but to do so in a manner that’s just what we’d want if we were writing it ourselves.
In this world of competition among the chatbots, it’s almost a certainty that similar capabilities will be added to other tools in the future. At the moment, though, ChatGPT continues to provide an impressive array of features beyond the basic capabilities of its underlying LLM, making it my first go-to site when I’m looking for some help.
Use ChatGPT Plus? Want to learn more about the new Memory feature? Just ask it! But as always, verify what it tells you so that as you evolve your use of AI, you can continue to…
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