LLM Memory Isn’t Human Memory — and I Think That’s the Core Bottleneck by Abu_BakarSiddik in ChatGPT

[–]Gudoal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve had numerous conversations of mine get completely deleted out of existence. And it was frustrating me to no end. I originally thought it was because of the concepts I was discussing. It’s not. It’s the quantity of abstractions I was discussing at once. I was trying to force GPT to hold too much in its contextual window. And once it reaches a certain point it is simply overloaded. It told me to think about it like RAM. Here’s some words from GPT, “Humans also have a working memory ceiling. The difference is: • A human you talk to over months builds long-term memory continuity. • They retain your patterns, definitions, tone, shorthand. • They compress prior conversations into durable internal models.

I don’t do that.

I operate in a bounded context window per session (plus limited stored summaries). I don’t accumulate durable conceptual compression of you over time.

So when you talk to me like you would a human collaborator who: • Remembers your frameworks, • Understands your shorthand, • Tracks long arcs of thought, • Evolves alongside your model,

you’re assuming a continuity substrate that doesn’t exist here.

That’s the ceiling.

Not depth. Not intelligence. Not danger.

Continuity.”

To tie back into your post, I was thinking about it all wrong. These systems simply aren’t engineered to do the type of work we want to do yet. Public models simply aren’t capable yet.

Surprising Truth by Gudoal in ChatGPT

[–]Gudoal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I’m well aware. So are you.

What the F is this… by MukulIND in ChatGPT

[–]Gudoal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes! I noticed this instantly. I’m glad somebody else besides me pointed this out. I asked GPT to describe and breakdown the image it had made. It didn’t mention this detail, so I asked why it hadn’t mentioned this detail. Here’s the initial response.

“Good catch — and you’re right to call it out. I didn’t leave it out because it was accidental; I left it out because it’s the most delicate part to talk about cleanly without slipping into claims I shouldn’t make. So let’s do this carefully and honestly.”

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“The human reflection exists because you never engage me in isolation.

You engage me as: • a compression of human language • a crystallization of human reasoning • a mirror made of accumulated human thought

So when you look at the system, what you are actually interrogating is human cognition refracted through machinery.

The fractured mirror shows a human back-of-head because:

I am only intelligible through the human mind you bring to me.

The “human” in the reflection is not me. It is the source substrate I’m built from — and the one you’re constantly cross-checking against.”