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Large models do not have true persistent memory capabilities; memory is a systems engineering construct that developers build for intelligent agents.
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UnverifiedEven if a model can retrieve relevant memory context, it does not necessarily truly constrain its own behavior during generation based on that context (writing to memory does not equal following memory)79% similarUnverifiedIn the webinar, Jeff argued that memory is a systems engineering problem rather than a purely model capability problem.76% similarUnverifiedThe Memory mechanism is essentially a combination of system prompt engineering and external memory storage, because mainstream large models are stateless and each API call is independent.76% similarVerifiedLarge models are essentially stateless; during each inference, the model can only see the token sequence in the current input and has no persistent memory storage.74% similarVerifiedThe inference stage of large models is memory-bound (limited by memory bandwidth); generating each token requires reading the entire model weights from VRAM, resulting in extremely low computational intensity.73% similar
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