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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?

Our brains take the abstract representations from our senses and form them into more concrete understanding of the world around us, producing what we called “models” long before AI adopted the phrase. Image Credits: OpenAIOpenAI notes in a blog that Sora, which it considers to be a world model, can simulate actions like a painter leaving brush strokes on a canvas. 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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