Dietmar Fischer

The four useful memory types are working memory, episodic memory, semantic memory, and procedural memory.

Working memory is the current mental workspace.

It is what the AI is paying attention to right now.

If you ask it to write a LinkedIn post about AI memory for marketing managers, then that instruction sits in working memory.

The AI needs to remember the topic, the audience, the tone, the length, and the goal while it completes the task.

Working memory is short-term and task-specific.

It is like the notes on your desk while you are working.

You do not need those notes forever.

You need them long enough to finish the job without wandering off and writing a poem about cloud computing.

This matters because many mistakes happen when temporary instructions are treated as permanent truths.

If you say, make this one report playful, you do not want the AI to make every future board report sound like a circus poster.

Revenue is down, but the vibes are up.

No, thank you.

The shareholders have suffered enough.

Working memory should help the AI stay focused, but it should not automatically become long-term memory.

Then we have episodic memory.

This is memory of events.

It is the AI's project diary.

Episodic memory remembers what happened.

The client rejected the first concept.