- The gemini ai assistant of Google will start to remember your past cats
- You can withdraw from the functionality
- Gemini also adds a new “temporary cat” mode for occasional conversations
Google Gemini will remember all these questions that you ask about the application now, unless you ask for it. The AI assistant will examine and referate your past cats as a way to personalize future, but only for Gemini 2.5 Pro for the moment.
With the memory function, Gemini could theoretically recall your favorite festive themes, the YouTube channels in which you are, or how you like to compose emails to your friends, without you having to remember. Gemini’s memory is no different from the memory function offered by chatgpt and other IA chatbots. And although Chatgpt can now connect to your Google account, Gemini has native access to Gmail, Calendar and Google Docs.
The memory is on by default, so you will have to make a slight effort if you prefer that the Gemini do not follow your cats. You can deactivate or return memory in the Settings menu in a personal context, keeping the “your past cats” option.
In addition, the “Gemini Apps Activity” section is now called “maintenance of activity”. When this parameter is active, some of your future downloaded files and photos can be used to train and improve Gemini and other Google services. You can also withdraw from this, if you wish.
Temporary talks
As much as Google is impatient to make sure that Gemini can remember what you say, the company has associated the deployment with its opposite, the new temporary cat. This incognito mode makes each conversation a single conversation and ensures that it is not recorded in your history, appears in the list of activities or sent to Google to form Gemini.
After a 72 -hour security take, they are completely deleted, unless you submit explicit comments, which will be treated and then thrown away. The temporary cat is designed for the moments when you want to ask for something that you are not sure that you want you to remember, anyway.
Temporary cats could reassure people who fear that Google simply wants more of their data, but the company clearly hopes that people will find value to give Gemini a memory. Google’s goal is to encourage people to consider AI as a long -term conversation partner, not only as a tool that you reintroduce each time you interact with it.
Whatever concerns, AI developers are very interesting on memory, because, without it, AI assistants are only intelligent parrots. Technically, they still do not be part of data even with personalization, but they will be less intelligent on this subject. Whether exciting or disturbing depends on your appetite for privacy with software.
