Promptly

“Promptly” – A cartoon that illustrates how the recent low key rollout of ChatGPT memory upgrade is a very significant step forward.

OpenAI released a memory upgrade, enhancing ChatGPTs ability to recall information from past conversations.

This is a shift from what we had beforehand, which was session memory (it would remember context during a single conversation, but forget everything when the session ended) and to now persistent memory (able to recall background context from earlier searches).

Until this release, it was arguably the case that OpenAI was becoming commoditized, locked in an endless race over who had the best AI engine of the week.

But by enabling its 300M weekly users to build persistent memory, OpenAI has unlocked a Pandora’s box of long-term value — creating a highly personal, sticky product no social platform can replicate, and deepening a data moat that will be nearly impossible to breach.

As AI-commentator Ejaaz Ahamadeen says, “this is the final data set.” While social media excelled at knowing ‘who you know’ (ie social graph), open AI models are now knowing ‘who you are.’ In the words of twitter user @signulll, “this data set is so high signal it’s basically synthetic consciousness modeling … the current data inside ai systems is live tissue. What fb or google have is crayon scribbles compared to this.”