memory-grounded inference

A 2016 Patent Reveals the Agentic Loop Behind Analytics

In 2016, I filed a patent on real-time concert feedback. Re-reading it now, the frame was wrong. We called it analytics. What we actually specified was an agentic loop: multimodal perception, memory-grounded inference, and a human in the decision path. That architecture was right. A decade of hindsight shows what agent builders still miss. For deeper context on how AI models handle perception differently, see our coverage of the vision AI benchmark where GPT-4o invented answers and Claude stuck with B.