Are you a regular ChatGPT user? Have you activated the “memory” function — which lets the OpenAI chatbot remember key details about you and your likes?
If yes, head over to it when you’ve got a spare moment and type in this question: “Based on our chats, what’s one thing you can tell me about myself that I might not be aware of?”
This query was first put forward on X by Tom Morgan, founder of The Leading Edge newsletter and ex-director of client communications and marketing at Sapient Capital wealth management.
ChatGPT’s answers to this prompt might astonish and even touch you with their insight into your personality and work approach. It’s likely to work with other AI chatbots and assistants with lasting memory, like Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5.
Even OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman commented on the trend on his X account, saying “love this” and reposting Morgan’s original post.
However, I don’t agree with this view as at least in my case — and likely for all those with ChatGPT’s memory feature on (see how to enable it here) — the chatbot is using whatever is stored in its memory to answer you, and even if it doesn’t draw insights from every single chat you have with it, it clearly knows info about you that it can use to try some sort of value-judgement and reflective answer (as shown by the fact that my response noted I was a journalist).
Still, others have shared variations of Morgan’s original question, noting that curious users might want to check out the difference in responses by switching the underlying model powering ChatGPT from the default GPT-4o or 4o mini to OpenAI’s new o1 preview reasoning model.
No matter which version of the question you choose to ask ChatGPT, or any AI chatbot for that matter, regular users might find it interesting, fun, and potentially eye-opening to learn what the chatbot says it knows about you — and more importantly, it might inspire you to think about yourself differently today.
Overall, the interest in using AI models to find out more about ourselves and our habits shows how much potential they have, far beyond just helping with work or school tasks. Indeed, as the generative AI era nears its 2nd birthday (since ChatGPT’s November 2022 launch), this question and others like it show just how much AI has become part of our lives and society, and how the more we use it, the more interesting new uses for it people discover.
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