Linear Thinkers vs. the Factorial Future

Meet Avi.

For months, Avi has been wrestling with a problem that was both esoteric and profound: teaching an AI to design better batteries.

Not just incrementally better, the way a spreadsheet-wielding MBA in a corporate lab might aim for a 3% gain in energy density per quarter. Avi was looking for a leap. He was feeding his cluster of machines the entir…