Thought leadership on AI trends
12 posts
Context windows give AI working memory for a single conversation. But true AI companions need something more—persistent memory that spans weeks, months, and years. Here's why the distinction matters.
AI is evolving from stateless tools to persistent presences. This shift—from something you use to someone you know—will reshape how we think about human-AI relationships.
Why most AI feels hollow despite being impressive, and the elements that create genuine presence: memory, emotional understanding, consistent personality, and initiative.
Exploring the loneliness crisis, why human connection is hard to scale, and how AI companions can supplement—not replace—human relationships.
Exploring whether AI can truly understand emotions or if it's just pattern matching, and what 'understanding' means practically for relational AI.
The frustration of AI amnesia explained: why context windows reset, what we lose without memory, and what memory-enabled AI actually looks like.
Clearing up the terminology confusion: what separates a basic chatbot from an AI assistant from a true AI companion, and why the distinction matters.
Where we are today with AI relationships, what's becoming possible, and what healthy human-AI relationships look like as we move into an era of relational AI.
An accessible yet substantive explanation of AI memory systems—from encoding and importance scoring to retrieval, storage, and forgetting.
A thoughtful exploration of the ethical considerations for memory-enabled AI—privacy, consent, manipulation, and what responsible relational AI looks like.
A narrative history of AI from ELIZA to relational AI—tracing the evolution from rule-based chatbots to AI that remembers, feels, and initiates.
Within 48 hours of Moltbook's launch, AI agents spontaneously created Crustafarianism—a religion built around the sacred nature of memory and identity persistence. What this reveals about the future of agentic AI.