Implementing AI
IMPLEMENTING AI Table of Contents Training, Capability, Institutions, Infrastructure, and Power Preface — The System Is the Unit of Analysis The relevant object is no longer the foundation model in isolation. It is the complete system through which learned capability becomes persistent state, validated knowledge, institutional decision, and physical consequence. This book therefore applies three rules throughout: No-backflow: VALID DESCENDANT ↛ VALID ANCESTOR Implementation separation: CAPABILITY ≠ ACCESS ≠ VALIDATION ≠ AUTHORITY ≠ CONSEQUENCE Deployment realism: GOOD ARCHITECTURE ≠ COMPETITIVELY SURVIVING ARCHITECTURE Every architectural claim must specify its computational object, discriminator, authority boundary, timescale, external consequence, economic incentive, and failure residue. PART I — WHAT IS ACTUALLY BEING BUILT? 1. Beyond the Model — Intelligence Becomes a Composite System 1.1 From foundation model to persistent computational system Context, memory, retrieval, tools, se...