Teach AIs forgetfulness could make them better at their jobs – Yahoo Finance Australia

While modern machine learning systems act with a semblance of artificial intelligence, the truth is they don’t “understand” any of the data they work with which in turn means they tend to store even trivial items forever. Facebook researchers have proposed structured forgetfulness as a way for AI to clear the decks a bit, improving their performance and inching that much closer to how a human mind works.
The researchers describe the problem by explaining how humans and AI agents might approach a…

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