Comment by iLoveOncall
6 days ago
"World model" and "physical reasoning" is such a lie.
Those models don't have any understanding of physics, they just regurgitate what they see in their vision-based training set, just like any image or video generation model does.
Monkey see other monkey cannot go through wall, monkey don't try go through wall.
I think you are misinterpreting the terminology.
Of course these models are not understanding physics in the way a physicists or a mathematician would. But they do form a model of the world that can be used for forecasting and reasoning, in a way possibly not much unlike how humans and other animals operate when interacting with the physical world.
You don't need to have taken a single physics class to be good at pool...
> Monkey see other monkey cannot go through wall, monkey don't try go through wall.
I mean... we are just monkeys. Did we not learn this way when we were younger?
Agreed! A really young child has no notion of "physics". They are learning through experience and observation.
These models/robots aren't superintelligent by any means, but "Monkey see other monkey cannot go through wall, monkey don't try go through wall" isn't far off from how some animals/humans "learn".
physics is phenomenological. the model sees phenomena