anterograde

Maybe if the batter is a robot with anterograde amnesia, but otherwise this is really a poor example of probabilistic independence.

Memento may be hugely successful, but can you think of any other examples of cinematic success with anterograde amnesia?

Do you really want to ask questions to an entity which acts like it has anterograde amnesia?

An LLM is more akin to interacting with a quirky human that has anterograde amnesia because it can't form long-term memories anymore, it can only follow you in a long-ish conversation.

But then there are humans who literally have anterograde amnesia and they literally cannnot learn.

And as long as it cannot do so reliably, it effectively has anterograde amnesia.

I was in a coma for five days; had anterograde amnesia for weeks, maybe a few months.

For another example, while it's not central to the story, Finding Nemo features a supporting character who has anterograde amnesia (Dory the fish).

For anyone not familiar with anterograde amnesia, the classical case is patient H.

There's the case of Clive Wearing[0], who suffers anterograde and retrograde amnesia.

But you wouldn't conclude that someone with anterograde amnesia is not conscious.

It's certain sedatives that have anterograde amnesia as a side effect.

Replace "agents" with "juniors I hired on fiverr with anterograde amnesia" and it's about how well it goes.

For example humans learn from experience, current AIs are trained offline and then frozen and can only "learn" by stuffing their short term memory with notes, like someone with anterograde amnesia.

From wiki: "Wozniak sustained severe face and head injuries, including losing a tooth, and also suffered for five weeks after the crash from anterograde amnesia, the inability to create new memories.

>> In the less cinematically attractive “anterograde amnesia” Disagree.

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.