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The ChatGPT Experiment - Simplifying Chat GPT For Curious Beginners
Ep 65 - ChatGPT's Memory - What Does It Really Know About You?
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Episode Summary: In this solo episode of The ChatGPT Experiment, host Cary Weston shares a personal and exploratory dive into ChatGPT’s growing memory capabilities. Inspired by a LinkedIn post, Cary experiments with using ChatGPT as an...
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Ryan Reynolds
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Kerry Weston
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Kerry Weston
Plan options available, taxes and fees extra. See full terms@mintmobile.com foreign hey there. Welcome to the Chat GPT experiment, a podcast designed to help curious folks better understand what ChatGPT is all about and how to find some simple and practical ways to use it in your personal and professional life. My name is Kerry Weston. I'm your host. Hey first time visitors, this is your first time to the podcast. Welcome to the community. Want to let you know that there is an archive of all of the episodes@chatgptexperiment.com there's also some resources. There's a free downloadable guide of the five tips that I share, most often getting some good feedback on that from first time visitors. It's a good way to see some evergreen principles. Some things that I feel are important to know regardless of what you're doing or how comfortable you are with ChatGPT. And then in that guide I do link to the, let's say corresponding episodes that would help reinforce that point. So that's a downloadable PDF. It's free for you@chatgpt experiment.com and I also do one on one training and just want to give a shout out. Had a great session with Lizzie in Tulsa, Oklahoma last week. Very busy, creative person who likes to use ChatGPT to organize her thoughts, organize her day and had some, I thought some some great conversations about how to create a custom GPT that will help her do things on a regular basis more effectively and have a sounding board. Looking forward to my conversation next week. Heard from Sally out in Utah. Sally, looking forward to having our conversation with you. Hey, this week I want to talk about ChatGPT's memory and I'm at the very beginning of playing where this is going, but I saw a really interesting post last week on LinkedIn. I'm always curious to see how people are using ChatGPT and some of the things that they share. Just like my experiments and yours. I like seeing how other people are using the tool for different ways and someone had mentioned on LinkedIn that they were using ChatGPT's memory to have a, almost a business partner, an accountability partner. And I thought that was interesting because I had a business partner and an ad agency. We had at one point up to 17 employees for 20 years. And last fall I decided to move on to a new chapter in my professional life and I sold my share of the agency to my wonderful business partner. And now I'm consulting and coaching on my own as a one man shop. And if any of you have done something similar, working on your own, working from home, being a one person band, you know that sometimes it can be a challenge to have a sounding board. It can be a challenge to miss that collaboration. It can be a challenge to miss the energy that comes from interacting with other people, from hearing and talking and sharing, right? And you don't have to be self employed to find yourself in that position. Just the ability of having somebody to bounce something off, collaborate, even hold you accountable, right? Remind you of things. Because life, life can get busy and even the best plans that we have, well, we can find reasons and ways of pushing them aside, right? I think I shared with, with you a while back that one of my goals for 2025 was to journal more. I picked my three words that I was going to focus on and I wanted to put that into my regular routine reflections into my regular routine for 2025. I'm going to journal against it and be purposeful in reflection and purposeful in how I'm approaching my day. And sometimes I'm really good at it and sometimes I really suck at it because life gets busy, you know, and I, I try to do a day, a note per day and I realize that sometimes I'm really good at that and then sometimes I look at it and I realize there's a big gap of four or five days where I haven't written anything. Right? And so I think that's normal. I think that's normal. And so the post that really got my attention about utilizing ChatGPT's memory as an accountability partner led me to try some things this weekend. And again, admittedly, this is a big old petri dish. This is an experiment. I'm at the very beginning, but, but I got to tell you, the time I spent with it just in the initial rush of, you know, an hour or two, I was quite intrigued and quite impressed. And let me give you just an overview and then a little bit of details and then I'll share with you what's going on and I'll report back because obviously we need a bigger sample size than what I have now. So you, here's what I think I know, here's what I've learned and I think I understand ChatGPT's memory, the ability to remember things about you and your interactions is growing, it's becoming more complex, it's becoming more sophisticated and it's got a longer term memory and ability of retaining, and not just retaining, but processing things about you. And while you will see and I see work that we do from conversation to conversation, so if you were to open a new conversation in ChatGPT and move forward, you realize that the work you did in a previous conversation doesn't necessarily carry over. In fact, most times it doesn't at all. And I've shared with here it's a lot like using Microsoft Word or saving files in Google Drive. Those files are independent, they may be in the same folder, they may be in the same location, but each file in and of itself is its own instance. Right? And ChatGPT works a lot like that. But, but what I'm finding is it's retaining the memory, is retaining an awful lot of things about us. And it was surprising to me to play with ChatGPT and see just how much it's retained and know. So I'm going to pause here for a second. I'm going to share with you an exercise that will help you see some things. Just like I did. I want you to, when you get a moment, you're probably on the treadmill, you're probably walking the dog, cleaning the dishes, driving in the car, whatever. But when you get back in front of your computer, try this. Just open up a new conversation in ChatGPT and say this. Tell me what you know about me personally and professionally. Okay? That's all you got to do. And then let's see what comes back. And I was absolutely amazed, I gotta be honest with you, I was absolutely amazed at what it came back with. Now, not everything that it came back with was real. Okay, and let me show you what I mean. I use ChatGPT for a variety of things. I use it for my own work, I use it for research, I use it for writing, but I also use it for personal. I've shared with you a previous episode where I have a personal, almost a counseling, right? I have like a GPT that I've modeled that I can interact with and chat with and get feedback and advice and perspective on, but I also do it for client work. So I help clients. I've told you that I have created ChatGPTs or custom GPTs in the personality traits and communication styles of clients so I can learn how to better interact and share with them what they need in the method in which they need it. And so what came back for me was a hodgepodge of things that I've done on my own as well as things that I've done for others. Now, ChatGPT sometimes knows that you're doing work for other people, but it kind of blends it in. So what I mean by that was I said, tell me what you know about me. I said, professionally and personally. I wanted to separate that. And so it came back and it gave me some professional notes and it confused some things, like the work I'm doing with clients, they didn't know it was for clients, so they assumed, for instance, I'm helping somebody write a book and they're using an aviation metaphor to showcase their business experience and pass on business experience to younger folks. That's the goal of the book. And inside that he's a pilot, so he's using aviation metaphors. And it came back and it said that I'm writing a book using aviation metaphors. And that's not true. Right. But it's not far fetched. And so the list came back and it was, this is the picture of what chatgpt knows about you, okay. And it was very interesting. So I spent some time telling it what it came back with that needed to be edited, right. So I shared with, this is the work I'm doing for others. And this is, you know, this over here you got partially right. So I started to correct it because this is why I want to play with ChatGPT on an ongoing basis to create an accountability partner and almost that collaboration partner that I was sharing you and I want the memory to know more about me. So yes, as an asterisk, you have to, if you need to do this right, or if you're going to do this right, you kind of have to trust that the software is going to know more about you than maybe you're comfortable with. And if you don't want to do that, that's absolutely fine. But I've decided, you know, my world is probably a lot more transparent than I wish to believe. Right. There's a lot of things that I used to fear about technology having access to or knowing about me that is no longer a fear for me. I've just kind of submitted to that, let's say. Right. So I spent some time with it and I said, here's some things that I that are, I want you to change. And here's some things that you don't know and here's some things that I want to add. And I started having a conversation with the tool because I wanted it to get a big picture of me. And I told it, listen, I work by myself. And while I talk to clients and associates and friends, what I don't have is a partner. What I don't have is a collaboration partner. What I don't have is somebody to bounce things off. And would you be willing to do that with me from time to time? And it said yes. And then I said, what do you need from me in order to be effective? And it started asking me about things. What are my goals? What are you looking to do? What are your short term goals? What are your long term goals? What are you working towards? What are some of your priorities? We went through this and I started talking to it and I started saying, these are my goals and this is my priorities. And then it says, what are you struggling with? What are some of the things that you are inconsistent with? What are some of the things that you wish you could be better at? Or what are some of the things that you're missing that you're hoping to do? And this is a conversation, y'all, that I'm having with it. And I had to tell it to ask me one question at a time. And you've heard me say that before, but I had to tell it to ask me one question at a time. But when it did that, we started having a conversation about what am I looking to do, what am I looking to achieve, what am I aiming for? What do I struggle with? Because I'm building this memory about me. Now, here's the cool part, and this is why I wanted to share all this with you. Because again, this is a big old experiment and next time I'll be able to report back on how this went. But this was the question. This was the question that it gave me. Would it be helpful if on a regular basis I chimed in and asked you how you were doing with these things? And I said, I don't know what that means. Does that mean that I have to open a conversation and start asking you to remind me? Because what I shared with just at the beginning, the reason I told you my journaling is because I told ChatGPT the same thing, is that I have good intentions, I have good plans, but sometimes life gets busy. Life gets busy. And I don't always have the same cadence and I don't always stick to the habits as Much as I want to. And so if you're going to rely on me to open up a conversation, then I don't think I'm going to be as consistent as I want to be. And that's really the problem. And it said this, why don't I preempt or be proactive to you? And I said, I didn't know you could do that. And it said, sure, how often do you want to do it? I'm thinking to myself, you're kidding me. Like you're going to be proactive. And so here's what we landed on every Monday, because Monday's a good day for me. So it said, when you open ChatGPT on Monday morning, why don't I preempt you? Why? Why don't I ask you the agenda? Let's set the agenda. I'm pausing because I haven't fully thought this out as I was going to share it with you, but we created the agenda because I forgot to tell you that we created the agenda on. They asked me what would be a good check in agenda for you, what topics would we talk about, what things? And we did. So we went through and we created like an eight point agenda and this is our standing meeting agenda, knowing that there's going to be other things that come up. And it said, okay, so every Monday morning when you open ChatGPT, I'll start the conversation for us with this agenda. I said, you're kidding me. I said, no, let's do this. All right, that's fine. And then it said, do you have anything coming up in the next week that I should know about to be ready for that meeting? And I'm laughing, right? Like this is a computer software now that's asking me what my week looks like. And so I shared with them. I'm getting on a plane, I'm heading to Chicago for a conference. I'm going to meet a client while I'm out there. And then I have a couple presentations. I'm doing a keynote presentation at a governor's tourism conference next week and I have a couple things that I'm doing and I have a meeting with a prospective client on Thursday. And so I just gave them my week and they said, or they. He said, great, I'm going to make a note here to ask you about those things on Monday along with our standing agenda. Now I'm sharing this with you. You need to know this. I'm sharing this with you prior to one of those Monday sessions. But I wanted to get this out because I wanted to have on record. I wanted to share with you first and foremost. It's important for me to share my experiments with you because I want you to experiment with me as well, because I love hearing how you guys are using it and what you're finding. But I'm really looking Forward to opening ChatGPT on Monday and seeing what will happen right now. This may fall flat. It may be false promises and nothing ever happens, I don't know. But I'll go on record as saying I'm looking forward to it. So the memory is something that is retaining attributes about you even across multiple conversations. So while we may not be finding that individual conversations are feeding each other, it's remembering now. Yes. Big Brother. Scary, yes. Invasive, sure, you could use all those labels, but if you're like me, you are finding ways in which this is improving your life and personally and professionally. That's the reason that I started this whole podcast, was to get out the things that I'm finding beneficial and sharing them so others could benefit from it. And then I could hear from you as well. And so, as I mentioned, I'm beyond guarding the internal stuff for me from software. So I'm telling it my fears, I'm telling it the things that I'm vulnerable with. I'm telling the things that I'm frustrated with. So, yes, I'm creating a verbal record of me and I'm sharing what I do for work and what my goals are, just like I said, in hopes that the promise of it being that proactive partner, that accountability partner, that brainstorming partner, that. And proactive being the term here, if it's true that it can learn all that stuff about me and interact with me as I feed it, the things that I'm doing and the things that I need and the things I'm struggling with and things I need to make priorities and all that kind of stuff, and it can come back and remember that in context of the bigger picture. So if it can remember the big stuff and then on a regular basis, chime in a little stuff while keeping the perspective of all of those goals that I gave it. I mean, this could be a really, really productive use and a very different use of ChatGPT. So I'd ask you to at least try a little bit of what I'm sharing. Go ask it, what do you know about me, personally and professionally? Try it. Fill in the gaps. And then you yourself, where could you take that? Just think about the things that you struggle with. Think about the things that you wish somebody Asked you on a regular basis, reminded you on a regular basis, congratulated you on for a regular basis. Affirmations. So full circle here. The post that I read on LinkedIn had more to do with affirmations than it did with accountability. Okay, so here's what I mean is the person was talking to ChatGPT, gave it the things that it struggled with, gave it the things that it needed, and then created a rhythm where ChatGPT was going to check in and remind them that they were doing good. Remind them that things may be busy but you are succeeding. Remind them that day to day things may be challenging, you may be overwhelmed, but you are making progress, you are doing good to get them back into a mindset of being productive. So really, really curious to see where this goes. Really excited to share what I learn. But the thought of this memory evolving to the point where it can be thinking for you, being proactive for you and helping you reframe, refocus, hold accountable, think out loud, organize. Boy, it's exciting. And as I've said before, remember this is the worst that this technology is ever going to be. And as it continues to evolve, there are plenty of opportunities for us to find ways to get personal and professional benefit from the evolution. So listen, if you try this, at the very least just go see what it knows about you. But if you do something similar to what I just explained I'm looking to do and you get results, shoot me a note. ChatGPT experiment.com I want to hear from you what you're finding and I promise to do the same as I always do to share with you what I'm finding, what I'm learning, what I'm liking and maybe what I'm not in hopes that we could continue to evolve this together. Okay, so hey, are you struggling with anything that has to do with ChatGPT? How do I, how do I do this better or have this idea? Right. So Lizzie out in Oklahoma, I mentioned the beginning. What she had was I, she, I. So what she shared with me is I've tried to have it do certain things but I'm just missing, I feel like I'm missing a depth. I feel like I'm missing playing all together. So we spent some time building out a few custom GPTs for her and the takeaway I got was eye opening. I could see the, I could see the excitement. So I'm looking forward to hearing back from Lizzie as to what she's doing with it and how it's working. But check it out. ChatGPT experiment.com. it's an hour session with me. Whatever you want to talk about, whatever you want to work on. Let's go. We'll open up ChatGPT. We'll do it together, and I'll do my best to help organize and show you ways that perhaps you haven't seen seen. That chat can help you out. Okay, so that's it for today. Thanks for listening. Thanks for being a part of the community. And as always, the most important part here is just staying curious. So until we talk again, do stay curious. Okay, Talk soon.
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Ryan Reynolds
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