ChatGPT May Soon Know Everything About You
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, recently shared an ambitious vision for ChatGPT. During a talk hosted by Sequoia, he described a future where ChatGPT could remember your entire life. Not just recent chats, but everything.
He imagines a model that stores all your interactions, emails, photos, and even books you’ve read. The idea is to create a highly personalized assistant with a full view of your life occurrences and situation. He called it “a very tiny reasoning model with a trillion tokens of context.” In simpler terms, it’s a compact AI that understands your whole world, past and present.
AI Assistant with Comprehensive Understanding
This AI would act like your right-hand man. It could plan your schedule, buy gifts before you forget, suggest helpful advice, and keep track of your goals. Everything it knows would grow over time, and your data would “append” as you live your life.
Altman also said the same could work for companies. Imagine an AI that understands an entire organization’s knowledge and operations. All searchable. All connected.
According to Altman, college students use ChatGPT as more than a chatbot. They upload notes, connect calendars, and write with AI help. Often, they also ask ChatGPT for life advice before making decisions. In contrast, older users mainly use ChatGPT like a better version of Google.
Future Potential and Concerns
Although many beg to differ, the future Altman describes sounds helpful. Imagine AI recommending books based on your reading history or booking your next dentist appointment. That sounds like relief from mental clutter, and although many people already use tools like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant, a true ChatGPT assistant would go much further.
A key source of worry is that ChatGPT sometimes makes errors called “hallucinations.” Even the best models make these errors. If an assistant schedules the wrong flight or gives bad medical advice, the results could be serious. That makes full dependence risky.
ChatGPT, knowing all users’ information, may give the benefits of a smart, always available assistant. However, there is a clear trade-off: privacy. Users could be on the receiving end of ads and more targeted actions.
