The Day My Research Assistant Finally Got a Memory (opens in new tab)

I've spent the last few weeks wrestling with a problem that I suspect many AI builders share: my research assistant agent was smart, but it had the memory of a goldfish and the spending habits of a trust fund kid. Every time I asked it to help me find research papers on AI/ML topics, it would recommend articles I'd already read. It would suggest the same paper three times in a single conversation. And worse—it was using GPT-4 for every single query, even when a simpler model would have worked...