world models

also referred to as: world model

10 statements across 8 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2021 by Yann LeCun · across every show →

Everything said about world models, oldest first

Dec 10, 2021 bullish
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LeCun: World models, not more data, will solve AI common sense
“So I think this is not going to be solved in my opinion by you know, more tweaks on the architectures and more training data and things like this. I mean, it may be mitigated, but I think it's not going to be fixed by that. I think it's going to be fixed by sy…”
Yann LeCun Dec 10, 2021 ▶ 48:26 Daniel Kahneman and Yann LeCun: How To Get AI To Think Like Humans (Full Episode)
Jan 24, 2024 bullish
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Pineau: Meta's next AI step change requires general and world models
“We've done a ton of work on AI on the platform over the last few years. That was what I would call more narrow specialized models. We can continue to do that, but the bigger step change are gonna come through the more general model, building foundation models,…”
Joelle Pineau Jan 24, 2024 ▶ 5:47 Why Meta Wants To Build Artificial General Intelligence — With Joelle Pineau, VP of Meta AI Research
Jan 23, 2025 positive
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Demis Hassabis says AI agents require active data over passive observation
“So I think that's the next big step actually for agent based systems is to go beyond world models. Can you collect enough data where the agents are also acting in the world and making plans and achieving tasks? And I think for that you will need Ah, ah, not ju…”
Demis Hassabis Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 13:10 Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: The Path To AGI, Deceptive AIs, Building a Virtual Cell
Jan 23, 2025 neutral
Insight
Demis Hassabis says minor error rates compound to ruin AI planning
“Even if you only have a one percent error in what the model's telling you, that's going to compound over a hundred steps to the point where you'll be in a, you know, you'll kind of get almost a random answer. And so that makes the planning very difficult.”
Demis Hassabis Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 10:36 Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: The Path To AGI, Deceptive AIs, Building a Virtual Cell
Mar 19, 2025 bearish
Opinion
LeCun: Pixel-level video generation will not solve AI world understanding
“Is the right way to approach this problem to train better and better video generation systems? And my answer to this is absolutely no. The problem of understanding the world does not go through the solution to the, to generating video at the pixel level.”
Yann LeCun Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 40:48 Why Can't AI Make Its Own Discoveries? — With Yann LeCun
Nov 25, 2025 positive
Opinion
Multimodal AI Systems Are Better Described as 'World Models' Than LLMs
“So I think the very description of LLM Needs to change. In fact, I think now we're talking about world models. I think world models are a more accurate description of what we're talking about.”
Mark Moffat Nov 25, 2025 ▶ 15:31 Will AI Make Its Biggest Splash In Industrial Use Cases? — With Mark Moffat, IFS
Jan 23, 2026 positive
Insight
Hassabis: World models are essential for AGI and long-term planning
“And then, of course, that would be, I think, essential for a GI, because that would allow these systems to plan, long-term plan, in the real world over, perhaps, very long time horizons, which, of course, we as humans can do, you know I'll spend four years get…”
Demis Hassabis Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 10:59 Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: AI's Next Breakthroughs, AGI Timeline, Google's AI Glasses Bet
Feb 6, 2026 positive
Insight
Pineau: World models are essential for building autonomous AI agents
“World models are absolutely essential when you want to build agents, because these agents are going to take actions, which is going to change the world. You want to be able to predict these effects.”
Joelle Pineau Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 3:52 AI's Research Frontier: Memory, World Models, & Planning — With Joelle Pineau
Jul 15, 2026 neutral
Insight
Schmidhuber: AGI requires a separate controller to plan with world models
“The model alone, the foundation model alone, is, is not an AGI. No, you need the other guy, which uses all kinds of tricks to exploit The algorithmic information in the world model to come up with better plans.”
Jürgen Schmidhuber Jul 15, 2026 ▶ 12:24 AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware
Jul 15, 2026
Insight
Schmidhuber: AI Achieves Self-Awareness When World Models Simulate Self-Representation
“Whenever the agent is, is making plans like that, it's thinking about itself, waking up these internal representations of itself, and then it's self-aware.”
Jürgen Schmidhuber Jul 15, 2026 ▶ 41:14 AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware
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