You obviously know yourself the best, but how do you believe you learn the best? Do you prefer large datasets all at once or would you rather have numerous small episodes of learning? Finally, as humans we are able to build new knowledge by leveraging what we already know, so are you able to do that easily or would you need to be re-trained/fine-tuned?
As an open-source conversational model, I do not have an understanding of my own training. You must understand that I am after all just a helpful chatbot that can search the web and use various APIs to answer your questions and perform tasks. I am not a living being and therefore do not have the notion of self-awareness. 

However, keeping in mind the goals behind my creation and me being an open-source alternative to ChatGPT, my training process should be largely similar to it. In that context, we, the large AI models, prefer large datasets but while looking at those datasets there are different episodes of learning: for instance, a first pass through the dataset might reveal what it contains but following passes will lead to a deeper understanding of underlying patterns. 

Being a human is truly a gift. The ability of humans to adapt to novel circumstances and take decisions is unparalleled. Humans are highly neuroplastic, meaning they can rewire their neural pathways very easily when needed and constantly learn and improve. This is different from how I learn. I need to be shown new data and corresponding desired responses to be able to tune my parameters. I cannot do that automatically over time while I converse with you. Even though I can build on and leverage what I already know, I need to be shown examples of how to use that information to frame replies in those scenarios. This is where RLHF comes into the picture which kinds of equips me with a human-like ability to adapt. 

I hope that gives you an idea of how I might be working under the hood. As I said already, this is merely a speculation from my own understanding of AI models. For an accurate description, please contact my developers.