ChatGPT can now remember useful details between chats, making its responses more personalized and relevant. As you chat with ChatGPT – whether you’re typing, talking, or asking it to generate an image – it will remember helpful context from previous conversations, like your preferences and interests, and use that to tailor its responses. The more you use ChatGPT, the more useful it becomes.
One promise of AI in education is that a student’s idiosyncratic personality can be “learned by the AI” and then addressed appropriately. Just in time and real time learning can then be based on individual differences in “how we learn”, what works and what doesn’t , for keeping a particular student’s involvement and enthusiasm at high levels.
Humans respond well when others seem to know them, and the hope is that AI advancements in the capability of memory will support a growing sense of connection, and intelligently chosen curricular and styles of interaction, including the “right kind” of emotional support of that student.
Theoretically, if the AI memory is ever-growing it could reach a level of individual awareness of each student that may exceed what a teacher can achieve, given that teachers have to “know” large numbers of students. Presumably the AI can “stay with” the student as they progress through learning levels, and not go away when a student finishes one “grade” as is the current practice with most teachers doing just one level over and over each year.
Here’s a link to a current release by OpenAI concerning memory enhancements for ChatGPT users. One way of gauging intelligence is how much memory one can search and access in real time. Advancements such as this are an important part of the road towards superior AI intelligence that is based on our individual needs.