This week, Latent Space examined a fundamental gap in AI's current capabilities: while large language models have achieved remarkable sophistication, we lack equivalent foundation models for understanding physical systems. The conversation with Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing, highlighted how this asymmetry shapes what AI can and cannot do, pointing to a critical frontier for the field beyond language.
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