Hello OpenAI Team,
First of all, thank you for building ChatGPT. I am a ChatGPT Plus subscriber and a daily user.
After spending several hours experimenting with ChatGPT, I identified a limitation that affects not only chess but any long-running interactive application.
Current Limitation
ChatGPT is excellent at reasoning, coding, and planning. However, maintaining interactive applications that require persistent state across multiple conversation turns is still difficult.
For example, I tested playing chess entirely through ChatGPT.
Although ChatGPT understands chess well, the board state gradually becomes inconsistent during longer games because the assistant has to reconstruct the board from conversation history rather than maintaining a persistent board object.
This limitation is not specific to chess. It also affects dashboards, Kanban boards, HTML applications, simulations, educational tools, interactive visualizations, and other stateful workflows.
Proposed Feature
Please consider introducing Persistent Interactive HTML Artifacts, similar to a live workspace.
The idea is that ChatGPT can create one HTML artifact and continuously update the same artifact throughout the conversation instead of generating static files.
The artifact should:
Preserve its internal state.
Stay synchronized with the conversation.
Support user interaction (click, drag, keyboard input, etc.).
Update live after every assistant response.
Be viewable directly inside ChatGPT without requiring users to download files.
Persistent Stateful Objects
Beyond HTML, it would be even more powerful if ChatGPT could maintain persistent structured objects such as:
ChessBoard
Project
Inventory
Database
Workflow
Dashboard
Instead of reconstructing these objects from conversation history every turn, ChatGPT would simply update their internal state.
This would dramatically improve reliability for long-running interactive tasks.
Why This Matters
This feature would unlock many powerful use cases, including:
Chess coaching
Interactive coding
Dashboards
Project management
Education
Simulations
Games
Visual workflows
Data analysis
Business applications
I believe this would make ChatGPT one of the strongest AI platforms for interactive applications.
I tested a similar workflow using Claude’s HTML Artifacts, and the persistent interactive workspace provided a much smoother experience. I would love to see ChatGPT offer a similar capability while combining it with ChatGPT’s outstanding reasoning, coding abilities, Projects, Memory, Apps, and ecosystem.
Thank you for considering this request. I truly believe this feature would significantly improve the user experience and unlock an entirely new category of AI-powered interactive applications.
This is not simply a request to match another AI product. Rather, I believe ChatGPT already has industry-leading reasoning capabilities. Combining those strengths with persistent interactive artifacts would create something unique and significantly expand ChatGPT’s usefulness for education, software development, business, and interactive applications.