That Was the Soft Launch - Now AI Is Leaving the Screen

That was the soft launch

They told us AI was a chatbot. A productivity toy. A nicer autocomplete. That was the soft launch.

In its latest Tech Predictions, CB Insights argues that AI’s next phase is no longer digital, but physical. Models are moving into machines, vehicles, warehouses, and defense systems, not as “intelligence,” but as embodied, networked execution. Once intelligence has hands, wheels, and access badges, the debate stops being about hallucinations. It becomes about what happens when models act in the real world.