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The Impending AI Revolution: Transforming the World by 2025
Infinite Context Windows and Autonomous Agents
In the next year, we are set to witness the emergence of very large context windows and text-to-action capabilities in AI systems. These advancements will have a profound impact on the world, the scale of which is not yet fully understood.
The concept of "infinite context windows" refers to AI models that can maintain and reason over vast amounts of contextual information, far exceeding the capabilities of current language models. Google Research has published a paper proposing a method called "Infinite Attention," which allows models to efficiently summarize and retain essential information from long passages of text, akin to how the human brain processes and remembers the gist of a story.
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