How I Built SOULCHAT's Long-Term Memory with sentence-transformers
The first time I tested SOULCHAT, I had the same conversation twice. I told the AI about a memory I wanted to preserve. It responded with warmth and understanding. I closed the window, opened a new one the next day, and it asked me the same question — as if we had never spoken. That was the moment I realized: if an AI companion can't remember you, it's not a companion. It's a search engine. So I…
During the initial testing of SOULCHAT, the AI assistant was found to lack long-term memory. The reporter observed that after closing the conversation window and opening a new one the following day, the AI repeated the same question, as if the user had never been spoken to before. This realization led to the decision to develop a semantic memory system for SOULCHAT, aiming to store, retrieve, and recall user-shared information across sessions.
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