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The "Correct ChatGPT on Its Knowledge" section could be misinterpreted as suggesting that ChatGPT has a memory beyond the individual chat session.

It does not. It resets to a completely clean state every time you start a new chat with it. I think it's important to help people understand that.

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You know this, but a tiny nit: it resets to a clean state after every prompt and then replays recent chat history to catch up. The distinction is important in cases like asking it to play a guessing game ("think of a number/person and I'll guess"). The only way it could maintain memory of the secret being guessed between questions is by outputting it as part of a response, which would defeat the purpose of the game.

That's a really useful reminder, thanks. I admit I hadn't figured out that guessing game limitation before, but you're right, it logically follows from the whole "replay the last X,000 tokens" mechanism it uses.

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