AI can do incredible things. So far, though, most of those things have been virtual.
If you want a killer article for your bichon frise blog or an expertly crafted letter disputing a parking ticket you probably deserve, chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini can deliver that.
All those things are locked into the nebulous world of information, though. They’re helpful, but the products of today’s large language models (LLMs) and neural networks aren’t actually doing much of anything.
AI’s silicon-bound status, however, is beginning to change. The tech is increasingly invading the real world.
2026 is the year that AI gets physical. And that shift has huge implications for the future of the technology—and for the impact when it fails.
Call Me a Robot
The change started with cars. The idea of a self-driving car goes back to the 1950s. But the technology always felt like it was decades away.
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