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Knowledge and memory

The what is connected to the when.

There’s cer­tainly some utility there … but the analogy is waking up in a hotel room and finding a scratchpad full of notes that you don’t remember making. The solid, struc­tured memory that we use to under­stand what we know and don’t know — when and when not to guess — requires time, and prob­ably also a sort of causal web, episodes and expe­ri­ences all linked together. I don’t believe hal­lu­ci­na­tion will go away — indeed I think it will con­tinue to be a huge problem — until a new kind of AI model goes out into the world and, in some real sense, lives in it.

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