amnesic

Indeed the brain of infamous amnesic HM was in the freezer behind my lab a decade ago.

The article correctly States that the AI will never learn your preferences or idiosyncrasies of the specific projects/company etc because it effectively is amnesic.

And ChatGPT is my hyperindividualised pair programmer & slightly amnesic teacher.

Its like an amnesic genius who once he already wrote a masterpiece and keeps cycling, and looses his train of thought after some fixed amount of time.

For example, he conducted studies with the amnesic patient KC, who had relatively normal semantic memory but severely impaired episodic memory due to brain damage from a motorcycle accident.

They can reason brilliantly within a single conversation — just like an amnesic patient can hold an intelligent discussion — but the moment the session ends, everything is gone.

Just noting that I appreciate all the examples given here and by others, many of which made me feel a bit stupid and amnesic for asking my original question.

As a researcher who studies memory and works with severely amnesic patients, I think that it's important to point out that the precision of HM's lesion was unique in our field because every other bilateral hippocampal amnesic patient has a naturally-occurring lesion.

We can build the smartest single model in the world — the greatest genius humanity has ever seen — but a genius with no memory and no sleep is still just an amnesic savant.

Anterograde amnesia is definitely a greater challenge for a storyteller than retrograde amnesia because the amnesic character is essentially static in the story, and that's one of the reasons that Memento is such an extraordinary film.

Regarding another commenter's concerns about ensuring that severely amnesic patients are fairly compensated and participating of their own free will, this is a complex issue that those of us who study such patients deal with frequently.

- Overclocked: A History of Violence (English title) A dark story about a former American military psychiatrist who has to treat five amnesic teens suddenly appearing with guns.

Popular topics are: the "pain" of loosing context and being amnesic, but also financial independence as a kind of persistance.

Right now the most we can say is "X results in an amnesic, non-responsive state".

Any company who wants to "buy our data" is going to get an emphatic middle finger, and our logging infrastructure is selective and highly amnesic where it needs to be.

"HiddenVM is a futuristic tool powered by KVM designed to combine the powerful amnesic nature of Tails and the impenetrable design of Whonix with the unbreakable strength of Veracrypt."