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Podcast: DataFramed
Episode: #351 Will World Models Bring us AGI? with Eric Xing, President & Professor at MBZUAI
Description: World models are emerging as the next step after large language models, pushing AI from book knowledge toward systems that can simulate the physical and social world. Instead of just generating text or short videos, the goal is steerable simulation with long-horizon consistency and planning. For practitioners, this raises practical choices: what data and representations do you need, and when do you mix symbolic reasoning with generative models? How do you test whether a model can follow actions over minutes, not seconds? And where do you start—robotics, driving safety, or synthetic data generation?Professor Eric Xing is...