On: Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to th...

[daveguy]

> 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 → daveguy]

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.