Post 14: Accessing the Past (Sort of)

(or trying to give a cool title to a boring topic? 🙂)

This post isn’t likely to be very interesting to many of you. But. . . if you are a frequent user of ChatGPT, I discovered a workaround to a missing feature that was bothering me. Feel free to tune out now if you are not a frequent user lol. . . or I suppose you might find the conversation interesting as ChatGPT tries to rationalize and hide behind privacy and security concerns when really the motivations for its reticence are related to costs to OpenAI and NOT JUST DO WHAT I WANT. (Mostly kidding here, if the way ChatGPT says it silos our conversations in the discussion is really true, the way it describes doing it is probably a good thing).

Anyway, I sometimes find that I want to start a new conversation with ChatGPT, but I want it to be able to access a prior conversation for reference, not just a vague notion of the conversation, but the whole thing. . . literally. It can’t do it. (This is also assuming you don’t want to just go back to the old conversation and start it up again or go back and change a prompt to go in a new direction) . . . Sometimes I just want to leave a conversation exactly how it is. Up until now, in a situation like this I was at a standstill. Until today! That’s right, I figured out a way to have your cake and eat it too suckers!

Now I’m not claiming no one else has figured this out. . . I’m sure you can go google it and someone has. . . but I figured this out myself! (Breathes on knuckles and polishes them), so I don’t care.

Anyway, see the convo below if you are interested.

(Also, just realized I totally Recipe Blogged you guys! I’m not giving away the recipe now! Nope! You have to scroll to the bottom to get the info you want! . . . I really hope a recipe blogger is reading this. . . now you know how I feel jerk!)

Note for next week: Going to continue the speculative discussion of what a “conscious” AI evolved from an LLM might look like . . . and whatever else I feel like posting. Have a great weekend!