> Do they? I certainly don't. I don't know if it's my memory deficiency, but I frequently hit my "context window" when solving problems of sufficient complexity.
Human context windows are not linear. They have "holes" in them which are quickly filled with extrapolation that is frequently correct.
It's why you can give a human an entire novel, say "Christine" by Stephen King, then ask them questions about some other novel until their "context window" is filled, then switch to questions about "Christine" and they'll "remember" that they read the book (even if they get some of the details wrong).
> Can you provide some examples of problems where humans have such large context windows?
See above.
The reason is because humans don't just have a "context window", they have a working memory that is also their primary source of information.
IOW, if we change LLMs so that each query modifies the weights (i.e. each query is also another training data-point), then you wouldn't need a context window.
With humans, each new problem effectively retrains the weights to incorporate the new information. With current LLMs the architecture does not allow this.
Human context windows are not linear. They have "holes" in them which are quickly filled with extrapolation that is frequently correct.
It's why you can give a human an entire novel, say "Christine" by Stephen King, then ask them questions about some other novel until their "context window" is filled, then switch to questions about "Christine" and they'll "remember" that they read the book (even if they get some of the details wrong).
> Can you provide some examples of problems where humans have such large context windows?
See above.
The reason is because humans don't just have a "context window", they have a working memory that is also their primary source of information.
IOW, if we change LLMs so that each query modifies the weights (i.e. each query is also another training data-point), then you wouldn't need a context window.
With humans, each new problem effectively retrains the weights to incorporate the new information. With current LLMs the architecture does not allow this.