Ben Dickson(@bendee983):This is what I think the AI research community and industry need. In the past few years, we've seen a lot of progress, but most of the focus has been on transformer-based LLMs (and a few non-transformer-based variants) and next-token prediction. But LLMs and NTP are not the only ways to achieve AI. I'm very excited about these new directions, including what @RichardSSutton is exploring and the world models that @ylecun proposes. We need to run experiments in multiple directions. Diversity wins in scientific discovery.

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Ben Dickson@bendee983

2026.07.13 17:09

This is what I think the AI research community and industry need. In the past few years, we've seen a lot of progress, but most of the focus has been on transformer-based LLMs (and a few non-transformer-based variants) and next-token prediction. But LLMs and NTP are not the only ways to achieve AI. I'm very excited about these new directions, including what @RichardSSutton is exploring and the world models that @ylecun proposes. We need to run experiments in multiple directions. Diversity wins in scientific discovery.