The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
Pretty, pretty cool.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
Right now, all the models that we see that are out there are built on one type of architecture, one type of technology.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
And that was an absolute kind of algorithmic breakthrough.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
And this is a transformer.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
So the transformer was like fundamentally built for language.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
Funnily enough, one of the cultures of transformer actually was like the first check in Pathway.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
But this technology is fantastic.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
by definition deprived of the notion of time and memory so pathway right now is building the first post-transformer frontier model which is tackling this fundamental problem of lack of memory in ai memory is linked to time of course because you remember you need to remember things over time you need to remember how you were thinking how you were solving something for example
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
You need to remember to see consequences, right?
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
You need to remember to stay coherent while problem solving.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
The more you know, the longer you can stay focused on a task.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
I mean, this means memory.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
That kind of requires time, right?
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
And we kind of know right now there is this lab called METER that actually kind of measures the benchmarks, the equivalence of, okay, like how the level of human tasks, let's say that the LLMs can do with, let's say, 50% success rate.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
And right now, the length of those tasks is at like two hours, 17 minutes for GPT-5.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
So, I mean, we could say that current LLMs are kind of reliving their Groundhog Day every day.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
So they don't have memory as such.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
The way it works is that they're trained ones with a lot of, a lot of, a lot of, a lot of data.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
To the point that by now we know we've exhausted all the data readily available on the internet for training.
The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Pathway’s Brain-Like AI: Zuzanna Stamirowska on Continual Learning, Memory & Real-Time Reasoning
This is where they get their power from because these are like fundamental language models.