World Models Are Here—But It’s Still the GPT-2 Phase

About this episode

Ben Lorica speaks with Jeff Hawke about world models in AI and their implications.

In this episode, host Ben Lorica speaks with Jeff Hawke, CTO at Odyssey, about world models — a category of AI that generates continuous, interactive simulations from images or text prompts. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple · Spotify · Overcast · Pocket Casts · AntennaPod · Podcast Addict · Amazon · RSS. Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

People in this episode

Host: Ben Lorica

Guest: Jeff Hawke

Topics covered

• world models
• AI
• simulations
• GPT-2
• technology

Keywords

• world models
• AI
• interactive simulations
• GPT-2
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Odyssey

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