An article in New Scientist highlights an inherent characteristic in the way large language models work, which means they are unable to forget what they have learned. As a result, computer scientists are working to develop "machine unlearning" solutions to teach AIs to forget. While this is a difficult task, the work could be critical in addressing concerns over privacy and misinformation. Furthermore, it could be necessary to engineer AIs to forget if we want to build models that learn and think like humans.
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