#world-models
5 episodes
#5554: Five Movies That Defeat First Viewings
Primer, Mulholland Drive, Synecdoche, Inland Empire — five acclaimed films where confusion is the craft, ranked by how hard they are to follow.
#4058: Can AI Agents Ever Be Truly Social?
Text-based AI simulations look social, but do they understand anything? We explore the gap between pattern-matching and real social intelligence.
#1205: System Update: Navigating the 9-Month Growth Spike
Explore the massive "firmware update" that happens at nine months as infants move from passive observers to active environmental explorers.
#1059: When Digital Twins Leave the Game
Google DeepMind is moving beyond chatbots to build consistent, physics-aware digital twins of our entire world.
#336: The World Model Revolution: Beyond LLM Token Prediction
Herman and Corn explore why LLMs struggle with logic and how the shift to world models is giving AI a sense of physics and spatial reality.