How AI ‘world models’ are helping robots learn to adapt in the real world– www.channelnewsasia.com
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ACE Robotics is among a growing number of Chinese firms developing the technology.
“Traditional models can only accomplish certain predefined and simple tasks. But if you give the robot a new task, it doesn’t know how to accomplish it,” said its chairman Wang Xiaogang.
“With the world model, because it can understand how our world has evolved, it can accomplish some new tasks.”
Rather than simply learning which action to take in a given situation, world models aim to build an understanding of the environment, predicting how it could change and using that information to decide what to do next.
Wang said such capabilities would be important as AI moves beyond the digital world and into machines operating in physical environments.
“Large language models answer our questions, do programming and code the agents. All that happened in the digital world,” he said.
“Now we are hoping that it comes to our physical world to help us operate tools and improve our productivity.”
