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ChronoPsyche t1_iyp04j8 wrote
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It will increase but the size of increases will slow down without major breakthroughs. You can't predict the rate of future progesss solely based on the rate of past progress in the short term.
You guys take the "exponential growth" stuff way too seriously. All that refers to is technological growth over human history itself, but every time scale doesn't follow the exact same growth patterns. If they did we'd have already reached the singularity a long time ago.
Bottlenecks sometimes occur in the short term and the context-window problem is one such bottleneck.
Nobody doubts that we can solve it eventually, but we haven't solved it yet.
There are potential workarounds like using external memory systems, but that is only a partial workaround for enabling more modest context-window increases. External-memory systems are not feasible for AGI because they are way too slow and do not scale well dynamically, not to mention they are separate from the neural network itself.
In the end, we either need an algorithmic breakthroughs or quantum computers to solve the context-window problem as it relates to AGI. An algorithmic breakthrough is more likely to happen before quantum computers become viable. If it doesn't, then we may be waiting a long time for AGI.
Look into the concept of computational complexity if you want to better understand the issue we are dealing with here.
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