World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li: "The world is not made of words." (opens in new tab)

World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li: "The world is not made of words." "Language models have given machines an extraordinary command of concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning, but the physical world, virtual or real, runs on a different substrate." "Where language models learn the statistical structure of text, world models learn the statistical structure of space and time: how light falls on a surface, how a garden looks from an angle no camera has captured, how objects respond to force and follow th...