Accidental World Models: The Day AI Learned the Rules of the Game
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"Expecting a model to be just a next-token predictor is a fundamental confusion of optimisation levels — equivalent to expecting humans to be just survival-and-reproduction machines."
Episode Overview
In this episode, host Will takes us behind the closed doors of a private 2022 intelligence briefing that exposed a massive rift in computational philosophy[cite: 1, 2]. We unpack the "Dual-Vendor Paradox," where one side dismissed autoregressive language models as surface-level pattern matchers ("stochastic parrots"), while the other predicted the Nobel-caliber scientific…
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