world model
/ˈwɜːrld ˌmɒdəl/
an internal representation of how the world works used for prediction and planning
world model in a sentence
“The model's world model understood that dropped objects fall down.”
Origin of world model
Old English weorold human existence + Latin modulus small measure
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building complex meanings from combinations of simpler parts
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applying learned patterns to new, previously unseen situations
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forming general concepts from specific instances
grounding
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capabilities that suddenly appear at certain model scales without being explicitly trained
in-context learning
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