@Nepiant It's a limitation of memory. AIs are algorithms of training data. Memories are what give us unique personalities and identities.
@Nepiant yes, the AI can't "think", it can only reference it's training. If you ask it about something you could otherwise Google, then it will know the answer because it's been trained on data from Google (among others), but if you want to discuss something new for which there is no answer to Google (and thus no training based on data from Google), the AI will not be able to form an opinion.
open ai's 'o1' and 'o3' models are capable of SOME reasoning thanks to their ability to take all the copied ideas and piece them together in reasonable ways according to the instruction of other copied ideas. but that's not going to enable suave conversations about novel subjects any time soon. it's still very slow.