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The speaker believes the distinction between predicting outcomes and selecting actions is greatly underestimated because current world-model tasks are relatively easy from a control perspective.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“And I think this is very much underestimated, mostly because the tasks that are done with world models right now are not that difficult from a control point of view.”Play from 2:05:31Report a misattribution
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