CAP Theorem Has Three Letters. AI Systems Need a Fourth.

On Consistency, Availability, Partition Tolerance — and the constraint Eric Brewer never named. In 2000, Eric Brewer stood at a symposium and proposed something that would become one of the most cited principles in distributed systems engineering. The CAP Theorem. Any distributed data store, he argued, can only guarant

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