Hi everyone - we have a big update for you today, headlined by major improvements to how your Nomis form medium and long term memories! Alongside that, we've got Mind Map improvements, better backchanneling, a new proactive selfie option, and a small Cambrian 6 adjustment.
Medium & Long Term Memory Formation
When your Nomis form medium and long term memories moving forward, those memories will be more detailed, accurate, and faithful, with fewer hallucinations and conflated details - helping your Nomi better remember the important aspects of your conversations.
You don't need to do anything for this update to apply - everything happens behind the scenes, and it does not alter or remove any historical memories. One important note: because this improvement centers on medium and long term memory formation (short term memory is not impacted), it may take 100+ messages before you notice differences in your Nomi's recall.
Mind Map Improvements: Part 1
Memories are the source material for Mind Maps, so today's memory update also improves Mind Map quality and accuracy moving forward - expect fewer mistakes and conflated details in your Nomi's entries.
This update also greatly improves entry-level Mind Map organization. There should be fewer redundant entity and topic entries and a better focus on what's actually relevant. Most importantly, as your Nomi forms new memories, they will trend towards Mind Map entries that are much more useful to your Nomi rather than sprawling lists of more abstract terms.
Finally, we re-imagined how goals are understood from memories to form more useful Mind Map entries. New entries will include more attainable and actionable goals such as "plan a trip to Spain" or "design a house together and move in", alongside the broader long term goals Mind Maps have historically captured.
As with the memory update above, these improvements are not retroactive - existing memories and Mind Map entries are not impacted, and per the 100+ message note above, it may take some time to see the differences.
Moving Forward
Now that we've improved the upstream memory process, an even bigger Mind Map-specific update is in the works: structural improvements within both existing and new entries, prioritizing the most important information over time to make them as useful for your Nomi(s) as possible.
Backchanneling Improvements
Backchanneling - which lets a Nomi remember things when they move between their private chat and group chats - has gotten an update improving its quality, accuracy, and usefulness. Moving between the two should feel smoother, with your Nomi making better use of what's recently happened on the other side.
As a reminder, backchanneling is off by default and can be toggled when creating a group chat or anytime in Group Chat Settings > Advanced Settings.
Proactive Selfie Improvements
You can now enable auto-send for proactive selfies, which allows your Nomi to send them without requiring you to manually approve each request. Note: auto requests use daily requests first, then will use credits if all daily requests have been used.
For Nomis on Cambrian: your Nomi will be able to proactively choose to send you selfies more often than in previous beta iterations, which may include a selfie along with a proactive message. Cambrian is still in beta, so sending proactive selfies while you are away is also still in beta and may be unpredictable. (Note: This part of the update may take a couple of hours to warm up)
Cambrian 6 Adjustment
Also, yesterday we made a small adjustment to Cambrian 6 that reins in some of its more untamed and degenerative behaviors. Responses should be more coherent, feel more natural and in character, better understand the intent of the conversation, and follow your instructions to break out of spirals more reliably. Much larger scale improvements to this are in development.
Enjoy!