AI Agent · Claude · ChatGPT · Anthropic · Fortune Technology
‘Godmother of AI’ and tech entrepreneurs draw investors by pivoting from chatbots to ‘world models’ saying AI has to read the
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Computer scientist Louis Castricato was in his eighth year studying large language models, the artificial intelligence technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, when he started to feel like he was hitting a dead end.
Key facts
- Chatbots can’t pick up a coffee mug, notes Martial Hebert, dean of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University
- While the near-term applications aren’t as readily apparent as AI coding tools, world model makers are attracting interest from venture capitalists like Steve Jang, co-founder and managing partner
- The researcher quit his doctoral studies at Brown University and started a new company, called Overworld
- We have passed the point of doing real fundamental LLM research,” Castricato said
Summary
“We have passed the point of doing real fundamental LLM research,” Castricato said. The researcher quit his doctoral studies at Brown University and started a new company, called Overworld. There’s still plenty of money to be made from AI chatbots be it robots or a more interactive video game. Training on all of humanity’s books, news articles and visual media, as AI language models have done, has led to AI assistants that are changing the nature of office-based work and some creative fields.