Researchers mull teaching AI models how to ‘forget’

Global tech researchers are toying with the idea of building smarter Artificial Intelligence (AI) models that will be equipped with selective memory loss capabilities in a development poised to safeguard against privacy breaches as well as quell environmental concerns.

A new study published by scholars at the Tokyo University of Science (TUS) demonstrates a new method erasing specific information from existing AI models, suggesting that the technique could build smarter and more efficient specialist AI rather than generalist systems.