On the errand · Scope, watch, take back or end the errand. · it acts
Element 101
Tell it: from now on, do it this way.
remember this · project rules
First known
Opened
1966PILOT (MIT): give the system advice about how it should work, and it works that way from then on. Warren Teitelman, Project MAC.
See also: ChatGPT memory, 13 Feb 2024: say 'remember' and it keeps the note.
“The user may easily modify the PILOT system itself by giving it advice about its own operation.”
PILOT is closer to an agent's standing rules than to chat memory: the advice changes how the system itself works.
Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.
- ReadingValue
Specimen № 101 — operate freely
Tell it the note to Kat is too stiff, and say how long that holds. Then answer its next drafts.
Fig. 101 — Remember
000 readings · idle
On the errand: its twin
The two series line up in pairs. Each act on a guess sits above the act that does the same thing to an errand, so Teach and Remember are one move made on two kinds of thing.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Remember takes.
- remember this
- project rules
From the 2021 table
This was a tile of its own. On this table it is a form of Remember, and its old address lands here.
- Pin ThoughtIsotopeThe same act in another body.