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Alexander Mattick suspects world-model approaches will encounter hard limits because of real-world conditions and the diversity and complexity of tasks, rather than necessarily because of the underlying idea.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“But I have a feeling that we are going to hit some really, really hard limitations,”
“not necessarily by the fundamental idea,”
“but basically by the nature of how the real world works and kind of how diverse tasks can become.”
“and how complex tasks can become.”Play from 2:10:38Report a misattribution
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