Computers that want things
James Meek, 9 October 2025
“... It can’t afford to. It suffers from the problem of ‘catastrophic forgetting’: as Homer Simpson put it, ‘Every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain.’ This is such a real danger for LLMs that once a new version is trained, it is frozen to prevent it being contaminated by any new knowledge.The most devastating ... ”