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Another curiosity, what do we estimate (if it's even possible) the context window of a human? Obviously an extremely broad question, and of course it must have
by fullstackchris 3y ago
Another curiosity, what do we estimate (if it's even possible) the context window of a human? Obviously an extremely broad question, and of course it must have some sort of decay factor... but... would be interesting to get a rule of thumb number in terms of token count. I can imagine its massive!
- Filligree 3y agoI don't think it's massive. In fact, since it's roughly equivalent to working memory, I suspect it's on the order of 100 tokens at most. It's just that, unlike these AIs, we're capable of online learning.
- travisjungroth 3y agoHuman memory, in my limited understanding, doesn’t have the bifurcation of weights and context that LLMs do. It’s all a bit blurrier than that. Something interesting that I heard from people trying to memorize things better is that memory “storage space” limits for people are essentially irrelevant. We’re limited by our learning and forgetting speeds. There’s no evidence of brains getting “full”. Think of it like a giant warehouse of plants, with one employee. He can accept shipments (learning). He can take care of plants (remembering). Too long without care and they die (forgetting). The warehouse is big enough that it is not a limiting factor in how many plants he can keep alive. If it was 10x bigger it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.