Remember

As all readers of this essay know, I am not in any way expert in machine learning (ML) and large language models (LLMs), so my descriptions and observations are, at best, lightweight cartoons of what is actually going on. Please keep this in mind as you read this. Some of you may remember Spock's death in Star Trek II (Wrath of Khan) and the brief scene where Spock mind-melds with Dr. McCoy: Spock says "remember" while depositing his katra in McCoy's brain in anticipation of self-sacrifice to save the starship Enterprise. As I read about yet another new breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) from Google Research, I thought of that scene. The new idea, christened "TITAN", is for a ML system to continue learning while in use after training.a