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SCOUT· 28%17m·2026-08-19·ScienceCreating 'world models' for robots + An AI math shakeup
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When you ask an LLM like ChatGPT or Claude a question, the model goes through its massive amount of training data and guesses the answer by mathematically predicting the word most likely to appear next in a sentence. This model, experts say, will not work well for technology designed to navigate the physical world.…
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