I suspect the most significant advance exposed to the public this week is Claude plays pokémon. There, Claude maintains a notebook in which it logs its current state so that it will be able to reason over the state later.
This is akin to what I do when I’m exploring or trying to learn a topic. I spend a lot of time figur ng out and focusing on the most important bits of context that I need in order to understand the next step.
An internal notebook allows natural application of chain of thought to attention and allows natural continuous working memory. Up until now chain of thought would need to repeat itself to retain a thought in working memory across a long time scale. Now it can just put the facts that are most important to pay attention to into its notebook.
I suspect this makes thinking on a long time scale way more powerful and that future models will be optimized for internal use of such a tool.
Unfortunately, continuity is an obvious precursor to developing long-term goals.
I suspect the most significant advance exposed to the public this week is Claude plays pokémon. There, Claude maintains a notebook in which it logs its current state so that it will be able to reason over the state later.
This is akin to what I do when I’m exploring or trying to learn a topic. I spend a lot of time figur ng out and focusing on the most important bits of context that I need in order to understand the next step.
An internal notebook allows natural application of chain of thought to attention and allows natural continuous working memory. Up until now chain of thought would need to repeat itself to retain a thought in working memory across a long time scale. Now it can just put the facts that are most important to pay attention to into its notebook.
I suspect this makes thinking on a long time scale way more powerful and that future models will be optimized for internal use of such a tool.
Unfortunately, continuity is an obvious precursor to developing long-term goals.