Pursuit of the World Model

The next completely insane over-hyped quest for the elixir of the gods that will drive AI investment is "World Model", and critics of scaling LLMs need to see it coming

Professor Gary Marcus has long used this term “world model” to describe in nebulous terms what is missing from LLMs.

LLMs were long claimed to be reasoning, thinking machines that will take all our jobs. Only to flop horribly! They flopped despite the tech oligarch companies building those environment destroying monstrosities rushing to bolt on RAG and …