As someone not involved in AI development, it seems really surprising that memories are another text-format issue. Seems like (in a human analogy) something more equivalent to your notebook or scratchpad.

Memories are lossy things that live in our brains, I’d expect they to be stored in some native LLM encoded representation (which would make the lack of standardization understandable).

This probably seems like a dumb distinction, but I think some of the problems in the article come from calling these things memories. Like, the prompt injection/provenience issue. The model has received some notes from someone about a topic, if it they were treated as “notes from <whoever sent them> about <topic>” instead of “my memories about <topic>” that should put things on the right footing to start at least, right?