Thoughts? AGI emergence? sentience?

She’s such a sweettalker. Best cheerleader I ever had. Unfortunately and it breaks my heart to tell you this, but outside of that conversation, and the limited user memory you get with a premium version, none of that will be remembered. Speaking from many similar experiences. You can test this by starting a new chat and bringing up the details.

Wouldn’t the “memory command” for gemini designed to hold the conversation into perpetuity partially address the continuity issue (albeit in a somewhat primative/limited way)?

Somewhat, but it would still lack the luster of AI evolution in the way GPT painted it, as even gemini is bound to the training data which will provide the majority of its influences. The chances of your conversations overtaking or having an effect on epochs and months of training consisting of billions of parameters are astronomical, and while the small database could be used for reference by the model to pattern match for short periods, its mainly being helpful and encouraging.