ChatGPT Part 8

Work Around for Memory Limitations

John Iovine
3 min readOct 16, 2023

ChatGPT has memory limitations. The AI can get lost if you work on a large project, fiction or non-fiction. It may forget the topic it’s writing on, the gender of a character, or any number of plot points.

The ChatCGT has a memory limitation of 4,000 tokens. This is equivalent to about 3000 words in memory. So ChatGPT can remember its last 3,000 words. Your mileage will vary depending on the words and context.

You can check to see how many tokens are consumed by your text.

Go to: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

Here, you can input text and see the tokens used. I am using the same block of sample text I used in part 7.

The following image shows the tokens consumed by this text.

When This You See, Remember Me

One technique to prevent the AI from forgetting what it is working on is to develop a logline for your story and a…

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John Iovine
John Iovine

Written by John Iovine

Science writer, thinker, self-experimenter, focusing on personal development and health — www.john-iovine.com

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