Neural Erosion: Emulating Controlled Neurodegeneration and Aging in AI Systems
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| author | Alexos, Antonios Tsai, Yu-Dai Domingo, Ian Pishgar, Maryam Baldi, Pierre |
| author_facet | Alexos, Antonios Tsai, Yu-Dai Domingo, Ian Pishgar, Maryam Baldi, Pierre |
| contents | Creating controlled methods to simulate neurodegeneration in artificial intelligence (AI) is crucial for applications that emulate brain function decline and cognitive disorders. We use IQ tests performed by Large Language Models (LLMs) and, more specifically, the LLaMA 2 to introduce the concept of ``neural erosion." This deliberate erosion involves ablating synapses or neurons, or adding Gaussian noise during or after training, resulting in a controlled progressive decline in the LLMs' performance. We are able to describe the neurodegeneration in the IQ tests and show that the LLM first loses its mathematical abilities and then its linguistic abilities, while further losing its ability to understand the questions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that models neurodegeneration with text data, compared to other works that operate in the computer vision domain. Finally, we draw similarities between our study and cognitive decline clinical studies involving test subjects. We find that with the application of neurodegenerative methods, LLMs lose abstract thinking abilities, followed by mathematical degradation, and ultimately, a loss in linguistic ability, responding to prompts incoherently. These findings are in accordance with human studies. |
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| spellingShingle | Neural Erosion: Emulating Controlled Neurodegeneration and Aging in AI Systems Alexos, Antonios Tsai, Yu-Dai Domingo, Ian Pishgar, Maryam Baldi, Pierre Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Neurons and Cognition Creating controlled methods to simulate neurodegeneration in artificial intelligence (AI) is crucial for applications that emulate brain function decline and cognitive disorders. We use IQ tests performed by Large Language Models (LLMs) and, more specifically, the LLaMA 2 to introduce the concept of ``neural erosion." This deliberate erosion involves ablating synapses or neurons, or adding Gaussian noise during or after training, resulting in a controlled progressive decline in the LLMs' performance. We are able to describe the neurodegeneration in the IQ tests and show that the LLM first loses its mathematical abilities and then its linguistic abilities, while further losing its ability to understand the questions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that models neurodegeneration with text data, compared to other works that operate in the computer vision domain. Finally, we draw similarities between our study and cognitive decline clinical studies involving test subjects. We find that with the application of neurodegenerative methods, LLMs lose abstract thinking abilities, followed by mathematical degradation, and ultimately, a loss in linguistic ability, responding to prompts incoherently. These findings are in accordance with human studies. |
| title | Neural Erosion: Emulating Controlled Neurodegeneration and Aging in AI Systems |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Neurons and Cognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10596 |