And moreover, this is more than a philosophical difference. As our understandings of AI and neuroscience improve we can now talk about "world models" as somethi

And moreover, this is more than a philosophical difference. As our understandings of AI and neuroscience improve we can now talk about "world models" as something almost tangible and constructible. Complex animal nervous systems build and use embodied world models to interpret the senses and allow for tractable future prediction and action generation. Yann Lecunn's paper on AGI from August 2022 gets into defining computational equivalents, and multimodal AI models like PaLM-E are taking first steps toward explicitly tying LLM-style text prediction with collections of perceptual observations about the environment. So it's not that artificial systems cannot, as a category, have models of their environment and the actions they can take within it, this "cargo cult AI" concept comes up when people jump the gun and see those capabilities in much simpler systems, even including ChatGPT-4. And it's disheartening to see narrative on the subject driven more and more by people who have not taken the time to learn about the subject matter, for all the interest they seem to show in talking about it.