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The Unpredictability of Memory.
What is Beyond Simply Recalling Past Events.
Equipping an AI system with episodic memory will allow such a system to operate in new and different ways.
Unpredictable uses of memories in AI will bring a new era to humans.
As humans make extensive use of their episodic memories to understand and act in new situations.
So if AI agents come to have this ability, the ways that they use that memory will be similarly hard to predict.
The human episodic memories are used to form the building blocks of future action plans and AI agents might engage in complicated and unpredictable behaviors as a result.
This unpredictability derives from two sources: the unknown sources of memories and the difficulty of foreseeing how memories might be utilized.
A human’s episodic memories depend on many brain regions for their creation and persistence.
Episodic memories are thought to be involved in a variety of important cognitive processes beyond simply recalling past events.
You have to keep in mind that the episodic memories are not located in just one area that is easy to study and manipulate.
