00 · Background
Generative AI in Engineering
The equation hasn’t changed. But the engineer has.
Deep dive: A Smarter Path Forward: From Brute Force to Elegant Intelligence
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White paper
Four trails, twelve trends, one change in the engineer’s work.
Start with the background, then follow the trails in order, or go straight to a trend. Every chapter has a conversation you can listen to instead.
Volume I · written November 2024 to February 2025, two years after ChatGPT; its text is kept as published
The whole paper, in one conversation · 11 min
The white paper, in one conversation
The whole study at once: four trails, twelve trends, and what they mean for the engineer.
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Contents
Six chapters, in reading order.
01 · Trail 1 of 4
Trail 1: Engineering Optimization Unleashed
Rethinking trade-offs: engineering in a landscape of possibility
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02 · Trail 2 of 4
Trail 2: Smart Digital Twins
How are digital twins reshaping industries with generative AI?
- 4 Resilience through predictive capability
- 5 Optimization across scales
- 6 Accelerating innovation through virtual prototyping
Read trail 2 or listen, 15 min
03 · Trail 3 of 4
Trail 3: AI as Your Problem-Solving Ally
How are AI agents changing engineering problem-solving?
- 7 Predictive diagnostics
- 8 Creative problem-solving with AI agents
- 9 Adaptive learning and continuous improvement
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04 · Trail 4 of 4
Trail 4: Sustainable Tomorrow
How can generative engineering build a more sustainable future?
Deep dive: The Cost of Scaling
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Volume II
The Second Act
The white paper asked what would happen when artificial intelligence joined the engineering team. Volume II asks what changes when it begins to perform the work: from assistance to agency, in mathematics, delegated action, closed loops, and the training of engineers.
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The whole white paper, in one PDF.
The background, the four trails and their twelve trends, the two deep dives and the epilogue, typeset for reading on a screen, with the figures, definitions and links of the pages. Every chapter and field also has its own PDF, at the top of its page.
Édition française
Le livre blanc, en français.
The French edition of the white paper, published with the Think Tank Arts & Métiers, as a PDF. It downloads directly; nothing is asked of you.