{"id":224968,"date":"2025-11-12T13:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/self-adapting-llms-behave-more-like-students-to-absorb-new-knowledge"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:06:50","slug":"self-adapting-llms-behave-more-like-students-to-absorb-new-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/self-adapting-llms-behave-more-like-students-to-absorb-new-knowledge","title":{"rendered":"Self-adapting LLMs behave more like students to absorb new knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-adapting-llms-behave-more-like-students-to-absorb-new-knowledge.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an MIT classroom, a professor lectures while students diligently write down notes they will reread later to study and internalize key information ahead of an exam.<\/p>\n<p>Humans know how to learn new information, but <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/large+language+models\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">large language models<\/a> can\u2019t do this in the same way. Once a fully trained LLM has been deployed, its \u201cbrain\u201d is static and can\u2019t permanently adapt itself to new knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>This means that if a user tells an LLM something important today, it won\u2019t remember that information the next time this person starts a new conversation with the chatbot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an MIT classroom, a professor lectures while students diligently write down notes they will reread later to study and internalize key information ahead of an exam. Humans know how to learn new information, but large language models can\u2019t do this in the same way. Once a fully trained LLM has been deployed, its \u201cbrain\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}