A FUNCTIONAL TAXONOMY OF WORLD MODELS

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While language models have given machines an extraordinary command of concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning, the physical world runs on a different substrate of space and time. 'World model' is one of the most important and overloaded terms in AI. It encompasses computer vision, robotics, reinforcement learning, generative AI, and other fields. This article looks at what world models are and what they are composed of.