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Bankful t1_ivzeicg wrote

Reply to comment by TheToastIsBlue in Scientists Taught an AI to ‘Sleep’ So That It Doesn't Forget What It Learned, Like a Person. Researchers say counting sleep may be the best way for AIs to exhibit life-long learning. by mossadnik

Not directly comparable. Sleep is a peculiarity of biology that suspends high level neural activity so that synaptic connections can be rewired physically. What AI needs is algorithm consolidation in which specific cases of problem solution figured out by trial and error are consolidated into universally applicable rules and heuristics - a process that can also be delegated to the AI, which is one of the major ways in which it can recursively improve itself. As such, I believe that a better metaphor would be "introspection".

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