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by adamsmith143 1564 days ago
Isn't the benefit of NNs on some level that you can store finer grained and more abstract data than a standard DB?
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Maybe. Transformers model associative memory in a way made precise by their connection to Hopfield networks. Individually, they're like look-up tables, but the queries can be ambiguous, even based on subtle higher-order patterns (which the network identifies on its own), and the returned values can be a mixture of stored information, weighted by statistically meaningful confidences.