Google’s Gemini chatbot can now keep in mind issues like data about your life, work, and private preferences.
As flagged by posters on X (and Google’s official account), a “memory” function has begun rolling out to sure Gemini customers, together with this reporter. Like ChatGPT’s reminiscence, Gemini’s provides context to the present dialog. For instance, inform Gemini to recollect meals you want and the following time you ask the bot for restaurant suggestions, it’d tailor its solutions to your culinary leanings.
Reminiscence is simply accessible for subscribers to Google’s $20-per-month Google One AI Premium plan, per 9to5Google, and it hasn’t but made its option to the Gemini apps on iOS and Android — simply the net consumer.
Within the Gemini UI, Google provides a couple of examples of doubtless helpful priming reminiscences, like “Use simple language and avoid jargon,” “I can only write code in JavaScript,” and “When trip planning, include the cost per day.” The corporate notes that the function, which solely helps English-language prompts for now, could be switched off at any time — however that reminiscences are saved till manually deleted.”
However Gemini reminiscences aren’t used for mannequin coaching. “Your saved information is never shared or used to train the model,” a Google spokesperson advised TechCrunch by way of electronic mail.
Reminiscence options comparable to ChatGPT’s and Gemini’s could be exploited if not fastidiously engineered with guardrails. Earlier this yr, a safety researcher discovered that hackers may surreptitiously plant “false” reminiscences in ChatGPT to successfully steal a consumer’s knowledge in perpetuity.
