Microsoft, TikTok give generative AI a sort of memory

TikTok owner ByteDance's "Self-Controlled Memory system" can reach into a data bank of hundreds of turns of dialogue, and thousands of characters, to give any language model capabilities superior to that of ChatGPT to answer questions about past events.

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When you type things into the prompt of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) program such as ChatGPT, the program gives you a response based not just on what you've typed, but also all the things you've typed before. 

You can think of that chat history as a sort of memory. But it's not sufficient, according to researchers at multiple institutions, who are trying to endow generative AI with something more like an organized memory that can augment what it produces. 

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