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When AI Leaves the Screen
It will drive vehicles, route freight, inspect bridges, dispatch first responders, move robots through warehouses, and help cities operate. Its job will not be to produce information. Its job will be to understand the world well enough to act inside it.
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What a Road Record Has to Prove
Empiric Earth launches today. Along with everything else a launch produces, here is the part that usually gets skipped: how to check whether any of it is true.
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We Counted the Near Misses
When two vehicles collide, somebody is required to write it down. A police report, usually an insurance claim, sometimes a line in a federal database. Almost everything the world knows about road risk comes from those records.
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Nexar and Nauto to Merge, Creating the Independent Infrastructure Platform for Physical AI
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Nexar and Nauto to Merge, Creating the Independent Infrastructure Platform for Physical AI
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The Physical World Does Not Have a Token Supply
Language models were built on a resource that turned out to be finite: the written internet. The physical world has no equivalent reservoir, and the reason why is the most under-discussed constraint in AI right now.
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The Seconds Before the Crash
Every major advance in vehicle safety for a hundred years has been about what happens during impact. The seconds before it were treated as unreachable. That is no longer the case, and the industry has not caught up with what that means.
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Nobody Should Grade Their Own Homework
Many companies building AI for the physical world evaluate their performance on their own data and using their own evaluation metrics. In any other field with this much at stake, that arrangement has a name and a regulator.
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The DeltaWhat Simulation Cannot Teach You
A simulator will run a billion miles overnight for the cost of the compute. It is the best value in autonomy development and it is indispensable. It is also structurally incapable of the one thing the industry most needs from it.
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