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I guess the idea is that if I described a static process to an AI, like multiplication, as we have it wired up right now, it wouldn't be able to remember what I told it for years.

I agree this is true, and that it will be a breakthrough for AI, but it's entirely unclear how far away it is in the time dimension.

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In humans this is the process of taking short term memory and converting it to long term memory involves a process called consolidation where the structure of the physical brain changes, I guess this would be tantamount to a reweighting of the neural net. It's generally not a one shot thing, especially as the concepts get more complex and have more parts to learn.

One of the things humans do is forget a lot of unimportant crap so we're not constantly rewriting our brains. Of course there is a the issue of how do we make sure we're training our AI how to learn multiplication and not feeding it a diet of junk food information/fake news too.