Why the Next AI Breakthrough May Come from Physics with Max Welling - #774
Physics concepts like thermodynamics and symmetry breaking may inspire AI architectures beyond scaling
Max Welling, CTO of CuspAI, argues the next AI breakthrough may come from physics rather than scaling, with his company using generative AI to accelerate materials discovery for semiconductors and clean energy. He proposes that concepts like thermodynamics, wave-based computation, and symmetry breaking could inspire entirely new neural network architectures. This is a contrarian but credentialed perspective on post-scaling AI development.