Large language models lack grounding in physical causality — a gap world models are designed to fill. Here's how three distinct architectural approaches (JEPA, Gaussian splats, and end-to-end ...

I n a certain, strange way, generative AI peaked with OpenAI’s GPT-2 seven years ago. Little known to anyone outside of tech circles, GPT-2 excelled at producing unexpected answ ...

For more than a century, economists have tried to reduce economics to a series of mathematical equations and statistical ...

Consistent with the general trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into nearly every field, researchers and politicians are increasingly using AI models trained on scientific data to infer ...

Top artificial intelligence systems now ace many textbook-style math questions, yet they still fall apart on genuinely new problems. The gap between polished performance on familiar benchmarks and ...

History teaches a simple lesson: the nation that sets the standards sets the future. In the 20th century, America wrote the rulebook for aviation, computing and finance. In the 21st, the decisive ...

Top AI researchers like Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are developing world models, which don't rely solely on language.

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alessandra Buccella, University at Albany, State University of New York (THE ...