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What are AI ‘world models,’ and why do they matter?
World models are the newest talk around town. But what are they, and what do they have to do with today's AI?
Image Credits: Runway“A viewer expects that the world they’re watching behaves in a similar way to their reality,” Alex Mashrabov, Snap’s ex-AI chief of AI and the CEO of Higgsfield, which is building generative models for video, said. Researchers including Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun say the models could someday be used for sophisticated forecasting and planning in both the digital and physical realm. In a recent post, AI startup Runway’s CEO, Cristóbal Valenzuela, says that data and engineering issues prevent today’s models from accurately capturing the behavior of a world’s inhabitants (e.g. humans and animals).
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