Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University have created an AI system that can recall previous experiences from a larger dataset and utilize it for future tasks.
The team introduced a selective state-space model (SSM) that uses a selection mechanism to recall only relevant information, helping to reduce computational power and memory requirements.
The system demonstrated success in handling synthetic tasks, audio modeling and generation, DNA modeling and language modeling with larger memory compared to previous approaches.
The AI studied in the work is known as a state-space neural network (SSNN).
According to the team, the AI can perform much faster when it is not bogged down trying to remember irrelevant information.
Previous state-space models typically used the LTI (linear time-invariant) and non-selective structured algorithm while the proposed model is better at handling large datasets.
The researchers' findings offer a new way of storing data in an AI and may lead to future AIs capable of autonomously remembering past experiences.
The AI could have implications in healthcare, with machine learning systems capable of diagnosing and handling illnesses by analyzing medical data.
The team is now exploring how the AI could be improved and used in wider applications.
The study work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.