AI Models Experience 'Cognitive Decline' As They Age: Study

[TEUser2K1]

AI Models Experience 'Cognitive Decline' As They Age: Study

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/ai-models-experience-cognitive-decline-as-they-age-study

Used to test these models was the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, or MoCA—traditionally used by neurologists to assess humans' attention, language skills, memory, spatial skills, and executive function when Alzheimer's disease or dementia is thought to be at play.

 

[nomz]

"LLMs performed poorly on tests designed to check human cognitive decline implies AI models having cognitive decline. No, we won't talk about what we mean by AI models 'ageing', except in the heading."

 

[NarwhalBacon]

In the grand internet tradition of links posts, haven't read the article and going solely off the headline, but doesn't giving them a test to measure cognitive decline assume they were capable of cognition in the first place?

 

[TEUser2K1]

but doesn't giving them a test to measure cognitive decline assume they were capable of cognition in the first place?

Well, they were not testing on earth worms...

 

[NarwhalBacon]

Well, they were not testing on earth worms...

I'd argue earthworms are more worthy of the 'cognitive' label than LLMs.

 

[TEUser2K1]

I'd argue earthworms are more worthy of the 'cognitive' label than LLMs.

I prefer to differ, seeing the kind of technical people around me these days.
They are definitely capable of dumb down LLMs