Does AI Remember You from Yesterday? Usually Not

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1. What happens when you start a brand new chat with most AI chatbots?

   1. The AI asks you to verify your identity before talking
   2. The AI already knows everything you talked about in previous chats
   3. The AI shows you a list of your old conversations
   4. The AI acts like it has never met you before

2. You tell an AI chatbot that your cat's name is Whiskers. Tomorrow you start a new chat and ask, 'What is my cat's name?' What will probably happen?

   1. The AI won't know your cat's name
   2. The AI will guess Whiskers because it's a common name
   3. The AI will remember Whiskers from yesterday
   4. The AI will ask if you have a cat

3. What does the lesson mean when it says AI has a 'clean slate' at the start of each chat?

   1. The AI starts with a blank white screen
   2. The AI has no personality yet
   3. The AI erases all its previous answers
   4. The AI forgets everything from previous chats

4. Why is it a good thing that AI doesn't keep a personal diary about you?

   1. Because it protects your privacy
   2. Because AI is too busy to write diaries
   3. Because diaries are old-fashioned
   4. Because AI can only remember 100 words

5. If you want an AI to remember something important, what should you do?

   1. Tell it again each time you start a new chat
   2. Install a memory chip in your computer
   3. Hope it remembers on its own
   4. Write it down on paper and show the AI

6. What is a 'session' in the context of AI chatbot conversations?

   1. The time it takes AI to think
   2. One chat from start to finish
   3. A fun game you play with AI
   4. A type of AI robot

7. Your friend says, 'I told my favorite snack to the AI yesterday, so it should remember it today.' What is wrong with your friend's thinking?

   1. The AI only remembers snacks, not other things
   2. The AI only remembers things told in the morning
   3. AI cannot understand snack preferences
   4. Yesterday's chat is separate from today's chat

8. Some AI chatbots have a memory feature you can turn on or off. What does this feature do?

   1. It makes the AI think faster
   2. It changes the AI's voice
   3. It automatically deletes your chat history
   4. It lets the AI remember you between different chats

9. Even if a memory feature is turned on, what might still happen?

   1. The AI might forget some things between chats
   2. The AI might become too smart
   3. The AI might start lying
   4. The AI might refuse to talk

10. The lesson compares AI forgetting between chats to meeting a stranger every time. What is the main point of this comparison?

    1. You should be rude to AI
    2. AI is afraid of people
    3. AI conversations feel impersonal and new each time
    4. AI only talks to strangers

11. Which of these statements is true about how most AI chatbots work by default?

    1. They remember things only if you ask nicely
    2. They remember everything forever
    3. They only remember things you tell them twice
    4. They forget everything when you start a new chat

12. Your teacher tells you to share important information with AI again in each new chat. Why might this be good advice?

    1. AI only listens the first time you say something
    2. AI gets confused if you don't repeat information
    3. AI has trouble understanding long stories
    4. AI forgets between chats, so repeating helps it remember

13. What might happen if AI chatbots remembered everything from every conversation you ever had with them?

    1. They would know too much personal information about you
    2. They would stop working
    3. They would become sentient
    4. They would be more helpful

14. In the 'Try it!' section, what are you supposed to do?

    1. Write a story about snacks
    2. Teach AI a new word
    3. Ask AI to draw a picture of a snack
    4. Tell AI your favorite snack and see if it remembers in a new chat

15. What is the relationship between a 'session' and 'memory' in AI chatbot conversations?

    1. They mean the same thing
    2. A session is when memory gets deleted
    3. Memory makes sessions longer
    4. Within one session, AI usually remembers; between sessions, it might not