‘Sum up what you know about me’ — I tried Gemini’s new memory import and it fixes AI’s most annoying problem

• Gemini has a new feature to import your memories from other AIs, like ChatGPT, which makes switching easier than ever
• I tested Gemini’s new memory import by asking ChatGPT to “sum up what you know about me,” then transferring that data
• The result was an “almost worryingly thorough list” of my preferences, habits, and personal details, showing both how powerful, and slightly unsettling, AI memory has become

Switching between AI assistants has always had one deeply irritating flaw. No matter how polished the interface or how clever the answers, every new chatbot relationship begins with a bureaucratic ritual.

You have to explain yourself all over again. Your preferences, your habits, your projects, your weirdly specific recurring requests, all of it has to be painstakingly reintroduced like you are onboarding a very enthusiastic intern with no notes.

Google clearly knows this is annoying, because Gemini has enhanced its memory features to make that process much less tedious. Gemini will now help you bring over all the information another AI chatbot has accumulated about you in a couple of simple steps.

That means it will import everything ChatGPT, Claude, or other platforms know about you and your preferences, so Gemini can feel more familiar with how you’d like it to behave.

The company is pitching it as a smoother path for people who are curious about trying Gemini without losing the personalized feel they have already built up elsewhere.

I have used ChatGPT long enough that it has accumulated plenty of information about me, so I decided to see what Gemini could learn from it through the process. I clicked on the new “Import memory to Gemini” button in the settings menu, and was offered the option of either uploading my conversations with an AI chatbot in a zip folder or using a provided prompt to gather the information.

Article continues below