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Context Is Software, Weights Are Hardware

https://www.aravindjayendran.com/writing/context-is-not-learning
17•maxaravind•2d ago

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maxaravind•2d ago
Author here.

I spent the last weekend thinking about continual learning. A lot of people think that we can solve long term memory and learning in LLMs by simply extending the context length to infinity. I analyse a different perspective that challenges this assumption.

Let me know how you think about this.

adityaathalye•1h ago
> Let me know how you think about this.

Well, I think of every Large Language Model as if it were a spectacularly faceted diamond.

More on these lines in a recent-ish "thinking in public" attempt by yours truly, lay programmer, to interpret what an LLM-machine might be.

Riff: LLMs are Software Diamonds

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/llms-are-diamonds/

kleyd•1h ago
Your conclusion touches on this, but I think the brain analogy is stronger than the hardware/software dichotomy.

It is also my very uninformed intuition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44910353

Also interesting to think about: could a single system be generally intelligent, or is a certain bias actually a power. Can we have billions of models, each with their own "experience"

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213•tobr•4d ago•112 comments

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Framework Laptop 13 Pro

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