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Emergency Pod: Mamba, Memory, and the SSM Moment

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Dec 22, 2023

A deep dive into the innovative Mamba architecture reveals its potential to revolutionize AI memory management by surpassing traditional transformers. The podcast explores the evolution of state-space models and their ability to enhance contextual processing. Discussions address the complexities of human cognition compared to AI, highlighting advances in understanding multimodal inputs. The future of AI is examined, emphasizing the significance of specialized architectures and long-term memory capabilities in upcoming models.

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Beyond Transformers

Nathan LeBenz believes transformers, while dominant, aren't the ultimate AI architecture.
He suggests a new architecture, the Selective State Space Model (Mamba), might surpass it.

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Human vs. AI Cognition

Human cognition handles multimodal input, forming higher-dimensional associations.
Current AIs, while multimodal, lack this nuanced, context-driven processing.

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Associative Processing

Humans process inputs multimodally, forming high-level associations, not just tokens.
This associative processing loop resembles how transformers work, moving from embeddings to higher-level concepts.

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00:00) - Episode Preview

(00:03:15) - Inventing something better than the transformer

(00:05:17) - Examination of human cognition

(00:15:44) - Sponsor: Shopify

(00:27:00) - Weaknesses of the transformer

(00:30:16) - Sponsor: Netsuite | Omneky

(00:33:40) - Giving AI memory

(00:39:32) - State Space Model Revolution

(00:55:00) - SRAM and High Bandwidth Memory

(01:36:16) - Block State and Hyena models

(02:04:00) - Advancing AI safety and interpretability

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