data architecture

The Representation Layer Physical AI Needs

Part 2 of AI Beyond the Model. Start with Part 1. In the first article, I argued that a vision system should maintain a persistent belief about the world rather than answer every question independently from the latest frame. That leaves a harder engineering question: what information should this system expose, and how should other models, applications, and agents use it? An image is rich but expensive to reinterpret. A single classification is cheap but often discards the context needed for a different task.