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AI chatbots need to be much better at remembering things. Have scientists just cracked their terrible memory problem?

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Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are terrible at remembering things — both between separate conversations and even during the same conversation. But two recent breakthroughs might completely change this. If you talk to a large language model (LLM) like OpenAI's ChatGPT for long enough, it will begin to forget crucial pieces of information — especially if the conversation stretches on for more than 4 million words of input. Its performance then begins to deteriorate rapidly.  Meanwhile, ChatGPT and other LLMs can't retain information between conversations. For example, if you finish one conversation and reboot ChatGPT a week later, the chatbot won't remember anything from the previous exchange.  But two separate teams have potentially found solutions to these memory issues. A team of scientists led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have pinpointed the reason AI forgets things mid-conversation and come up with a method to fix it, while dev...

Meta prepares AI-powered chatbots in attempt to retain user

Meta Platforms is preparing to launch a range of artificial intelligence (AI) powered chatbot s that exhibit different personalities as soon as September, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Meta has been designing prototypes for chatbot s that can have humanlike discussions with its users, as the company attempts to boost its engagement with its social media platforms, according to the report, citing people with knowledge of the plans. The Menlo Park, California-based social media giant is even exploring a chatbot that speaks like Abraham Lincoln and another that advises on travel options in the style of a surfer, the report added. The purpose of these chatbots will be to provide a new search function as well as offer recommendations. The report comes as Meta executives are focusing on boosting retention on its new text-based app Threads, after the app lost more than half of its users in the weeks following its launch on July 5. Meta did not immediat...