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		daveguy 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to th... > The only advantage we really have is long-term memory. We also have short term memory that is associative to our long term memory. So, STM is about 7 items. But those 7 items are also pointers to LTM. Oh, and the ability to learn new things.

CamperBob2 6 months ago [–]

I think of the context as short-term memory. If there were a way to update the weights based on the context, such that the outcomes of future queries would be influenced, things would get interesting in a hurry.

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