Why AI Chats Forget Your First Instruction: Tokens and Context Windows

Why AI Chats Forget Your First Instruction: Tokens and Context Windows

A long conversation with an assistant eventually betrays you. In the opening message you asked for a formal register and no emojis; forty messages later the tone has loosened and the first emoji has surfaced. Nothing has malfunctioned. The drift follows directly from how large language models read text: at any moment they can only … Read more