4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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Some autistic savants can recall arbitrary information years later, resembling the high-fidelity information AI models retain in context.

Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026

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“There are, in fact, some humans who have this autistic savant type ability to recall random tables of numbers or nonsense syllables years later,”
“basically the kind of fidelity information that models have in context.”
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