There's no doubt a world simulator of some sort is probably going to be an important component in any AGI, at the very least for planning - Yan LeCun has talked about this a lot. There's also this work where they show a VAE type thing can be configured to run internal simulations of the environment it was trained on.
In brief, a few issues I see here:
You haven't actually provided any evidence that GPT does simulation other than "Just saying “this AI is a simulator” naturalizes many of the counterintuitive properties of GPT which don’t usually become apparen
my impression is that by simulator and simulacra this post is not intending to claim that the thing it is simulating is realphysics but rather that it learns a general "textphysics engine", the model, which runs textphysics environments. it's essentially just a reframing of the prediction objective to describe deployment time - not a claim that the model actually learns a strong causal simplification of the full variety of real physics.
There's no doubt a world simulator of some sort is probably going to be an important component in any AGI, at the very least for planning - Yan LeCun has talked about this a lot. There's also this work where they show a VAE type thing can be configured to run internal simulations of the environment it was trained on.
In brief, a few issues I see here:
- You haven't actually provided any evidence that GPT does simulation other than "Just saying “this AI is a simulator” naturalizes many of the counterintuitive properties of GPT which don’t usually become apparen
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