Language Models in Plato's Cave - by Sergey Levine

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From its original inception, the study of artificial intelligence has been intertwined with the quest to understand human intelligence. Predicated on the notion that the mind is fundamentally computational – that is, it can be modeled as an algorithmic framework independently of its underlying computational substrate or “hardware,” – AI researchers have sought to draw inspiration from what we understand about the mind and the brain to construct artificial minds that reflect the flexibility and adaptability of human intelligence. Some researchers have even speculated that the complexity and flexibility of the mind is derived from a single algorithm applied throughout the brain to acquire all of its diverse capabilities. This hypothesis is particularly appealing for AI researchers, as it suggests that our job might actually be quite simple. Instead of painstakingly designing all of the functions that we would want an artificial mind to perform, we might only need to discover this single

Language Models in Plato's Cave Why language models succeeded where video models failed, and what that teaches us about AI Sergey Levine Jun 08, 2025 277 19 35 Share From its original inception, the study of artificial intelligence has been intertwined with the quest to understand human intelligence. Predicated on the notion that the mind is fundamentally computational – that is, it can be modeled as an algorithmic framework independently of its underlying computational substrate or “hardware,” – AI researchers have sought to draw inspiration from what we understand about the mind and the brai

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