Every new technology promises to save people time. Artificial intelligence is beginning to promise something more ambitious: memory.
Instead of asking chatbots to answer questions or draft emails from scratch, a growing number of professionals are spending hours – sometimes days – teaching AI who they are. They are feeding it years of curriculum vitae, portfolios, writing samples, work histories, career decisions, and personal preferences until the software can represent them almost as consistently as they can.
The goal is not to write better prompts, but to build an AI that understands the person behind the prompt.
For Olanrewaju Habeeb, a Lagos-based communications professional, that shift began with frustration.
Originally published by TechCabal.