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Previous episode AI chatbot memory: does the model remember what you said before?

How ChatGPT and other AI chatbots answer your question

Context window: why an AI chatbot loses the start of a long chat

Some chats go on for weeks, and every message makes them longer. After a while, an AI chatbot starts to forget the start of the chat. Where is the limit, and what does the chatbot lose first?

  1. 1 Miva has kept her own plant chat going for weeks, and she pasted in a long care guide too. With each new message, the chatbot sends all of it to the model.Mivasystem prompta care guideMiva pastedsent with eachnew message

    Miva has kept her own plant chat going for weeks, and she pasted in a long care guide too. With each new message, the chatbot sends all of it to the model.

  2. 2 One day she asks: "What did I ask you first?" Her first question is still there, at the top of her chat, yet the reply cannot find it. So how does the model miss what Miva can still see?Mivaher firstquestionWhat did Iask you first?Hmm, I can'tfind it.

    One day she asks: "What did I ask you first?" Her first question is still there, at the top of her chat, yet the reply cannot find it. So how does the model miss what Miva can still see?

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