Sooner or later everyone who has used ChatGPT for a few months says it: it knows me by now.
That is half true. It is worth knowing which half, because that decides what you can rely on and what you had better not.
Three Different Things Are Called Memory
The first misunderstanding starts with the word. Three things are at work inside an AI tool, and all three look like remembering.
The first is the conversation you are in. As long as the window is open, the AI has everything you said in it. That feels like an excellent memory, but it is really a desk: everything is within reach, and when you close it, the desk is cleared.
