"The world is not made of words" — Dr. Fei-Fei Li.
Profound respect to Dr. Li, World Labs, and the researchers formalizing this frontier.
ODEI starts from the same scientific premise.
If intelligence is to act alongside a person, it needs more than language. It needs a world model of human agency: observations, intent, constraints, memory, decisions, permissions, consequences, and verification within one continuous loop.
A human and an AI need a shared state to reason from and act from.
Models change. Interfaces change. The shared world remains.
One human.
One world.
Any AI.
World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li: "The world is not made of words."
"Language models have given machines an extraordinary command of concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning, but the physical world, virtual or real, runs on a different substrate."
"Where language models learn the statistical structure of text, world models learn the statistical structure of space and time: how light falls on a surface, how a garden looks from an angle no camera has captured, how objects respond to force and follow the laws of physics."
"Language gave machines a way to talk about that world. World models are how machines will finally come to understand, imagine, reason and interact with it."
Full piece:
drfeifei.substack.com/p/a-fu…