It probably is a lot like that! I imagine it's a matter of specializing the networks and learning algorithms to converge to world-model-like-structures rather than language-like-ones. All these models do is approximate the underlying manifold structure, just, the manifold structure of a causal world is different from that of language.

I see no reason to believe an effective LLM-scale "world-modeling" model would look anything like the kinds of things previous generations of AI researchers were doing. It will probably look a lot more like a transformer architecture--big and compute intensive and with a fairly simple structure--but with a learning process which is different in some key way that make different manifold structures fall out.

I thought you were making an entirely different point with your link since the lag caused the page to view just the upskirt render until the rest of the images loaded in and it could scroll to the reference of your actual link

Anyway, I don't think that's the flex you think it is since the topology map clearly shows the beginning of the arrow sitting in the river and the rendered image decided to hallucinate a winding brook, as well as its little tributary to the west, in view of the arrow. I am not able to decipher the legend [that ranges from 100m to 500m and back to 100m, so maybe the input was hallucinated, too, for all I know] but I don't obviously see 3 distinct peaks nor a basin between the snow-cap and the smaller mound

I'm willing to be more liberal for the other two images, since "instructions unclear" about where the camera was positioned, but for the topology one, it had a circle

I know I'm talking to myself, though, given the tone of every one of these threads

Every one of those is the wrong angle

It wouldn't matter if they are both right. Social truth is not reality, and scientific consensus is not reality either (just a good proxy of "is this true", but its been shown to be wrong many times - at least based on a later consensus, if not objective experiments).

Nah. There are whole communities that maintain a baseless, but utterly confident dismissive stance. Look in /r/programming, for example.

Would a human born into a sensory deprivation chamber ever make a call?

Whilst all the choices you make tend to be in the grey matter, the rest of you does have internal state - mostly in your white matter.

https://scisimple.com/en/articles/2025-03-22-white-matter-a-...