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scotty79today at 9:28 AM1 replyview on HN

AI has purely linear input channel. It gets tokens one by one. Context is a form of short term memory. I know, that because you give it written text it seems like you provide it with a document it should be able to process in any way it likes, but the system is set up as if you read the document to AI, word by word and asked questions about it, that it needs to answer "of the top of its head".

> It's simple, I can do it myself:

> Go row by row. See a certain phrase in the transaction description? Look a few rows ahead.

Can you do it without looking at the document? Just by ear? Every time correctly? Without missing something?


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Razengantoday at 1:18 PM

Whatever the reasons/excuses, the initial assessment stands: AI is still far from "butler" level assistance with anything much beyond simple tasks.

Maybe by next Christmas?

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