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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a big vision for the future of ChatGPT at an AI event hosted by VC firm Sequoia earlier this month.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n When asked by one attendee about how ChatGPT can become more personalized, Altman replied that he eventually wants the model to document and remember everything in a person\u2019s life.<\/p>\n The ideal, he said, is a \u201cvery tiny reasoning model with a trillion tokens of context that you put your whole life into.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis model can reason across your whole context and do it efficiently. And every conversation you\u2019ve ever had in your life, every book you\u2019ve ever read, every email you\u2019ve ever read, everything you\u2019ve ever looked at is in there, plus connected to all your data from other sources. And your life just keeps appending to the context,\u201d he described.<\/p>\n \u201cYour company just does the same thing for all your company\u2019s data,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Altman may have some data-driven reason to think this is ChatGPT\u2019s natural future. In that same discussion, when asked for cool ways young people use ChatGPT, he said, \u201cPeople in college use it as an operating system.\u201d They upload files, connect data sources, and then use \u201ccomplex prompts\u201d against that data.<\/p>\n Additionally, with ChatGPT\u2019s memory options<\/a> \u2014 which can use previous chats and memorized facts as context \u2014 he said one trend he\u2019s noticed is that young people \u201cdon\u2019t really make life decisions without asking ChatGPT.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cA gross oversimplification is: Older people use ChatGPT as, like, a Google replacement,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople in their 20s and 30s use it like a life advisor.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s not much of a leap to see how ChatGPT could become an all-knowing AI system. Paired with the agents the Valley is currently trying to build, that\u2019s an exciting future to think about.\u00a0<\/p>\n Imagine your AI automatically scheduling your car\u2019s oil changes and reminding you; planning the travel necessary for an out-of-town wedding and ordering the gift from the registry; or preordering the next volume of the book series you\u2019ve been reading for years.<\/p>\n But the scary part? How much should we trust a Big Tech for-profit company to know everything about our lives? These are companies that don\u2019t always behave in model ways.<\/p>\n Google, which began life with the motto \u201cdon\u2019t be evil\u201d lost a lawsuit in the U.S. that accused it<\/a> of engaging in anticompetitive, monopolistic behavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n Chatbots can be trained to respond in politically motivated ways. Not only have Chinese bots been found to comply with China\u2019s censorship requirements<\/a> but xAI\u2019s chatbot Grok this week was randomly discussing a South African \u201cwhite genocide\u201d<\/a> when people asked it completely unrelated questions. The behavior, many noted<\/a>, implied intentional manipulation of its response engine at the command of its South African-born founder, Elon Musk.<\/p>\n Last month, ChatGPT became so agreeable it was downright sycophantic<\/a>. Users began sharing screenshots of the bot applauding problematic, even dangerous<\/a> decisions<\/a> and ideas<\/a>. Altman quickly responded by promising the team had fixed the tweak that caused the problem.<\/p>\n Even the best, most reliable models still just outright make stuff up from time to time.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n So, having an all-knowing AI assistant could help our lives in ways we can only begin to see. But given Big Tech\u2019s long history of iffy behavior, that\u2019s also a situation ripe for misuse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n