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Language models powering bots like ChatGPT have no conception of the physical world. Will the next leap forward come from teaching AI sensory common sense?

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Deepak Pathak / CMU

In Deepak Pathak’s telling, nobody is building human-level artificial intelligence with language alone. You could train a large language model on billions of descriptions of gravity, but it would never conceptualize it, since it has never experienced the real world. Train it with every physics textbook on earth, and it still can’t vis…

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