Stop watching the looms: why the AI era belongs to infrastructure

The text explores the parallels between the Industrial Revolution and the current era of artificial intelligence, arguing that the true transformative power lies not in the breakthrough inventions themselves, such as the cotton gin or large language models, but in the infrastructure that enables these technologies to revolutionize industries. Using Manchester's historical role in the Industrial Revolution as an example, the author emphasizes that while remarkable machines like the power loom catalyzed change, it was the development of canals, railways, and logistics networks that truly reshaped the world. Similarly, in the AI era, the focus should be on building robust infrastructure to support the explosion of AI-generated applications, as it is this foundation that will sustain long-term transformation. The author, who works at Upsun, an application platform that provides the necessary infrastructure for AI-driven software, contends that while models and algorithms will evolve and be replaced, the infrastructure connecting these technologies to the real world will endure and be the true hallmark of the Cognitive Industrial Revolution.

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