I have given up on AI folks using a scientific definition of “world model,” yet I am still amazed at how viciously dishonest NVIDIA is being here: “Cosmos le

I have given up on AI folks using a scientific definition of “world model,” yet I am still amazed at how viciously dishonest NVIDIA is being here: “Cosmos learns just like people learn,” the spokesperson said. “To help Cosmos learn, we gathered data from a variety of public and private sources and are confident our use of data is consistent with both the letter and spirit of the law. Facts about how the world works — which are what the Cosmos models learn — are not copyrightable or subject to the control of any individual author or company.” Cosmos definitely does not learn facts about how the world works! This is just a ridiculous lie. It accumulates a bunch of data hopefully demonstrating how the world works, and hopefully some facts fall out of it. Given that this failed completely for Sora, which obviously knows nothing about physics, I am confident that Cosmos also knows nothing. It has no facts, just data. And unless they somehow integrated touch sensors it doesn’t even get physical data the same way toddlers do. So “learns just like people learn” is also a lie. Some AI hype is people getting ahead of themselves and believing their own marketing. But here NVIDIA is just lying their asses off, presumably to stoke investor hype, but also because they’re trying to monetize a bunch of copyrighted data they stole. These are bad people.