Feature: Automatically generated conversation titles

When creating a new conversation, why spend time thinking of a title when AI can do it for you? Cognos has added automatic conversation title generation to help improve your user experience.

When Cognos launched, by default all of your conversations were labelled "New conversation". Not very original and definitely not very helpful.

We've now enabled automatic generation of conversation titles. This uses your selected AI model to come up with a few key words to name your conversation. Hopefully this is accurate enough to help you find and remember your conversations a bit easier.

But don't worry, if you don't like the name, you can still manually change it to something you prefer. Conversation names are encrypted in your browser and of course also only saved encrypted as well.

See it in action

I will start a new Cognos chat with the following Prompt:

I'd like to learn more about Paris. I've never been but I'm planning a trip in the summer and want to see what the city has to offer. I'll be travelling by train and staying for about 4 days. What can you recommend?
screenshot showing a new message prompt being sent to GPT 3.5 Turbo

Let's see what my selected model (OpenAI - GPT3.5-turbo) has to suggest:

Exploring Paris: Summer Travel Guide
screenshot showing the generated conversation title based on my earlier prompt

That's much more helpful than an endless stream of New Conversations in my side bar.

How it works

Behind the scenes this uses the same system as sending a normal message. When you send your first message in a new conversation two requests are made:

  1. Your actual message with the selected Agent to the selected Model to generate the response;
  2. Your message to the same Model but with a new 'Generate Conversation Title' Agent;

When we receive the suggested conversation title back, we encrypt it and save the encrypted copy to the database.

If for whatever reason we are unable to generate a title you will see the original "New Conversation" as a backup.

We hope that this will improve your experience with Cognos, the privacy focused AI platform.