The Weight of Intelligence
The next chapter of AI will be measured in motion, materials and consequences.
We have grown used to judging artificial intelligence by the quality of an answer. That measure is about to become insufficient. Once intelligence enters production, its value is expressed in what a company can make, move, repair and deliver—and in the resources required to do it.
This issue looks at the moment abstraction becomes infrastructure. It is a more demanding world than software, and perhaps a more honest one: every promise must eventually survive contact with matter.