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by astazangasta 3907 days ago
Eh? Humans are not fixed entities, they adapt and learn. You can't extrapolate into the future based on my previous anything. Six-year-old me can't tell you who thirty-six year-old me is.
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Given enough data and a good model (recurrent neural network can model arbitrary algorithms, for example) you can learn algorithmic regularities in data, including learning itself. There is a paper just about that: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-44668-0_13#...

If this can be scaled to human-like learning remains to be seen, but training a conversation RNN model that remembers some details of past conversations and acts on them should be possible.