OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has suggested that the next major leap in artificial intelligence will not come from sharper reasoning abilities, but from something far more fundamental: memory.
Speaking on a recent podcast with technology journalist Alex Kantrowitz, Altman outlined a future in which AI systems are able to retain and learn from vast amounts of personal data across an individual’s lifetime, fundamentally reshaping the idea of a digital personal assistant.
Memory, not reasoning, as the next leap
According to Altman, today’s AI tools…
