用记忆老化分数AAS量化AI模型的记忆衰退,发现会话重置导致记忆老化。
Redundancy-as-Masking: Formalizing the Artificial Age Score (AAS) to Model Memory Aging in Generative AI
- 通过熵与冗余建模,提出可衡量记忆老化程度的AAS分数
- 25天实验显示会话重置使AAS显著上升,反映记忆衰退
- 适用于多种任务,为评估AI记忆健康提供新工具
人工智能的记忆老化并非随时间推移,而是源于记忆性能的结构不对称。大型语言模型中,如日期名称等语义线索在会话间保持稳定,而实验编号序列等情景细节在上下文重置后易丢失。为此提出人工年龄分数(AAS),基于可观测回忆行为构建的对数尺度、熵驱动的度量,经证明在弱且模型无关假设下具有良定义性、有界性和单调性,适用于多任务与领域。其冗余掩蔽形式将冗余视为降低惩罚质量的信息重叠,但本研究默认冗余为零(R=0),给出保守上界。在持续25天的双语实验中,采用ChatGPT-5进行无状态与持久交互对比。持久会话下模型持续回忆语义与情景信息,使AAS趋近理论最小值,表征结构年轻;会话重置后,虽保持语义一致性,但情景连续性崩溃,导致AAS急剧上升,标志结构性记忆老化。结果支持AAS作为理论坚实、任务无关的诊断工具,用于评估人工系统的记忆退化。研究建立在冯·诺依曼自动机、香农信息与冗余理论及图灵行为智能观基础上。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Artificial intelligence is observed to age not through chronological time but through structural asymmetries in memory performance. In large language models, semantic cues such as the name of the day often remain stable across sessions, while episodic details like the sequential progression of experiment numbers tend to collapse when conversational context is reset. To capture this phenomenon, the Artificial Age Score (AAS) is introduced as a log-scaled, entropy-informed metric of memory aging derived from observable recall behavior. The score is formally proven to be well-defined, bounded, and monotonic under mild and model-agnostic assumptions, making it applicable across various tasks and domains. In its Redundancy-as-Masking formulation, the score interprets redundancy as overlapping information that reduces the penalized mass. However, in the present study, redundancy is not explicitly estimated; all reported values assume a redundancy-neutral setting (R = 0), yielding conservative upper bounds. The AAS framework was tested over a 25-day bilingual study involving ChatGPT-5, structured into stateless and persistent interaction phases. During persistent sessions, the model consistently recalled both semantic and episodic details, driving the AAS toward its theoretical minimum, indicative of structural youth. In contrast, when sessions were reset, the model preserved semantic consistency but failed to maintain episodic continuity, causing a sharp increase in the AAS and signaling structural memory aging. These findings support the utility of AAS as a theoretically grounded, task-independent diagnostic tool for evaluating memory degradation in artificial systems. The study builds on foundational concepts from von Neumann's work on automata, Shannon's theories of information and redundancy, and Turing's behavioral approach to intelligence.
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