Comment by tarsinge
10 hours ago
Text and language contain only approximate information filtered through humans eyes and brains. Also animals don't have language and can show quite advanced capabilities compared to what we can currently do in robotics. And if you do enough mindfulness you can dissociate cognition/consciousness from language. I think we are lured because how important language is for us humans, but intuitively it's obvious to me language (and LLMs) are only a subcomponent, or even irrelevant for say self driving or robotics.
Seems like that "approximation" is perfectly sufficient for just about any task.
That whole take about the language being basically useless without a human mind to back it lost its legs in 2022.
In the meanwhile, what do those "world model" AIs do? Video generation? Meta didn't release anything like that. Robotics, self-driving? Also basically nothing from Meta there.
In the meanwhile, other companies are perfectly content with bolting multimodal transformers together for robotics tasks. Gemini Robotics being a research example - while modern Tesla FSD stack being a production grade one. Gemini even uses a language transformer as a key part of its stack.