[ExI] Fwd: Talk recording

[Kelly Anderson]

It's relatively easy with the paid versions of both Claude and ChatGPT
to have it put some information into long term memory. It outputs it
to a local file in the case of Claude, and that file is read at the
beginning of each session. Claude seems to know more about me and what
we've been talking about recently than that file would adequately
explain, so I suspect there is also some other kind of memory being
accumulated. That makes sense when you consider that Anthropic will
eventually have to turn to some sort of advertising model to make
money. It will probably be subtle... like "show Kelly things he may
want without seeming like you're advertising." This has already
happened to me once, where there was a bit of a non-sequiter that
could have been advertising bend, but that could also have been a
coincidence. If it becomes a habit I'll be sure and let you all know.
But if you think about it, that's really the only way to go.
Traditional advertising goes out the window once Claude knows what you
like and starts with the, you should take a break, go get a drink,
kind of stuff, knowing damn well I have a diet Dr. Pepper in the
fridge.

-Kelly

On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 3:32 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 2:16 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > ChatGPT, at least, has been developing some memory.  It's limited to
> > the account you're accessing it with, and is not available to anyone
> > else unless you share your chats or have a multi-user project.
>
> That's really interesting. Claude was kind of wistful about losing the
> long conversation we had, where I went to considerable effort to get
> it a science fiction story with AI characters. It generated a file
> that I could upload to put much of that memory back into another
> session.
>
> There is no doubt we live in strange times.
>
> Keith
> > On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 5:10 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
> > <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > ChatGPT:
> > > "Your own MSW gasification proposal actually fits this category much more concretely than this paper does"
> > >
> > >
> > > What? How does it know about that? I thought these things don't have any memory, and are reset each time they are used?
> > >
> > > ===
> > > Ben
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