Could a peer-to-peer file sharing approach be the solution to the persistent memory problem? I keep seeing posts and articles about what “seems” to be called the “persistent memory problem” (I am no AI researcher, so my use of terminology may be wrong). If my understanding is correct, this term describes the problem where an AI does not remember a user between sessions. As a hobby, I write “hard” science fiction, which means the ideas have to be plausible based on currently accepted scientific facts or theories, so I occasionally ask an AI for research help when search engines fail me. Then of course I have to explain again what I am trying to do and why I am asking for help. It seems the problem stems from the fact that remembering user histories would understandably be very resource intensive for the AI companies. As someone in their seventies, who spent their entire year career in a variety of roles in the Information Technology sector, I recall the days when peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing apps were all the rage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer_file_sharing It was/is used not just for music or other media, but for academic research as well, for example, the SETI@home project. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ I am curious as to why the AI companies don’t use a P2P solution to address the persistent memory problem. Based on my working experience, it seems reasonable that we could give permission to the AI of our choice to maintain a reserved space on our individual desktop/laptop/phone where it could keep a history of its chats with us. Every time we chat, the AI could access this area and would thus be able to remember our history. That way what would otherwise be an unmanageably huge memory requirement becomes manageable by being distributed across thousands or billions of endpoints. This way the user, not the AI company, deals with the issue, be it physical resources or costs. If space on a phone is an issue, i.e. someone only has a smartphone but no computer/laptop, there should be a business case for offering to host the required space in the cloud for a fee. However, if AI is managing the space on the phone, I imagine it could compress the file to be very small. Does this seem reasonable? I’m asking because I don’t understand why this is not being done. I appreciate that there are technical, proprietary, security and other challenges, but P2P is definitely not rocket science. submitted by /u/Netcentrica
Originally posted by u/Netcentrica on r/ArtificialInteligence