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Re:Simply explained: How does GPT work? by myrmidon on Thursday April 06, 2023 @10:56AM (#35469164)
> For a start, GPT-4 doesn't include in its generation the current state of its internal knowledge used so far

Sure. But are you certain that you NEED write access to long term memory to think? Would your thinking capabilities degrade meaningfully if that was taken away?

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Re:Simply explained: How does GPT work? by TuringTest on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:17PM (#35486453)
Yes, I would say that a brain without the capacity to form new memories has degraded thinking capabilities.
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