OpenAI CEO Wants ChatGPT to Remember Your Entire Life

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman envisions a future where ChatGPT could document and remember a person’s entire life, according to TechCrunch.

Altman made this statement in response to the question, "How can ChatGPT become more personalized?" He explained that the ideal scenario would be a "very tiny reasoning model with a trillion tokens of context that you put your whole life into."

“This model can reason across your whole context and do it efficiently. And every conversation, <...> every book, <...> every email, everything you’ve ever looked at is in there, plus connected to all your data from other sources. And your life just keeps appending to the context,” said Altman.

Altman believes this idea isn’t far-fetched, noting that younger users are already using AI as an operating system — uploading files and other data before prompting ChatGPT with "complex prompts." He observed that while older generations tend to use AI as a Google replacement, younger people see it as a "life advisor."

Reactions to Altman’s vision have been mixed. Some find the idea of an "all-knowing AI system" intriguing and practical for everyday planning, while others are uneasy about entrusting so much personal data to a "Big Tech for-profit company".