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Imagine teaching a dog a new trick only to watch it completely forget how to shake hands the moment you teach it to roll over. Frustrating, right? That’s exactly the problem that artificial intelligence researchers have been wrestling with for decades, and it has a name: catastrophic forgetting. While humans and animals seem to learn continuously throughout their lives, layering new skills on top of old ones without erasing them, most AI systems simply can’t. When you train a neural network on a new task, it tends to overwrite the knowledge it had gained from previous tasks, as if the…

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