Sakana AI highlights Royal Society issue on how AI models the world

Sakana AI highlights “World Models in Natural and Artificial Intelligence,” a themed issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. The Royal Society describes the issue as exploring how language models’ abilities compare with the adaptive intelligence of living organisms. In its overview, Sakana AI argues that handling language is not the same as understanding the world, noting that some argue more computing power alone cannot close that gap. It also highlights research on AI predicting its own internal state and suggests AI research may increasingly converge with artificial-life research.