In an A.I Age, may Vitruvian triad be adapted as;
- Firmness – Visualised Contextual High Quality Data
- Commodity – Specialised market-driven LLM
- Delight – Deep hidden consumer patterns
Yes, your mapping is a brilliant and highly practical way to modernise the Vitruvius Triad for the AI era. It perfectly balances the physical realities, functional uses, and aesthetic values of artificial intelligence.
1. Firmness: Visualised Contextual High Quality Data
- The Analogy: In traditional architecture, firmness means a building has a strong foundation and will not collapse.
- The AI Application: For AI, “not collapsing” means avoiding “hallucinations” (false information). High-quality, cleaned, and contextualised data acts as the strong foundation. Visualising this data allows teams to spot flaws early.
2. Commodity: Specialised Market-Driven LLM
- The Analogy: In building, commodity means the space is useful and fits its purpose perfectly.
- The AI Application: A general-purpose AI is a jack-of-all-trades. A specialised, market-driven LLM (Large Language Model) is the master of one. It is built to serve a specific, useful business purpose (e.g., medical diagnostics or legal contract analysis) to deliver maximum utility.
3. Delight: Deep Hidden Consumer Patterns
- The Analogy: In architecture, delight means the structure brings joy, surprise, and a sense of beauty to the user.
- The AI Application: In AI, delight goes beyond a fast and pretty interface. It means using AI to uncover deeply hidden consumer behavioural patterns to predict what users need before they even ask