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Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's Mind

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Intelligence as Pattern Matching through Associated Memories

Intelligence largely relies on pattern matching which is facilitated by a hierarchy of associated memories. Basic associations between real-world objects are the foundation, which can then lead to more abstract associations. Association and associated memory play a crucial role as they enable denoising and retrieval of current memories. By utilizing association and associated memory, one can gradually update queries towards memories and access different parts of space. This process is illustrated using the example of learning the alphabet where querying for one letter returns the next in sequence, allowing traversal of the entire alphabet.

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