{"id":80218,"date":"2026-05-07T00:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=80218"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:16:42","slug":"world-models-when-artificial-intelligence-learns-to-understand-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/world-models-when-artificial-intelligence-learns-to-understand-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;World models&#8221;: when artificial intelligence learns to understand the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"auto\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80219\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/next-giant-leap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/next-giant-leap.jpg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/next-giant-leap-250x141.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Imagine a child who, after seeing a ball roll behind a sofa, instinctively knows that it continues to exist and can anticipate the precise spot where it will reappear. This fundamental ability, which psychology calls\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unige.ch\/piaget\/piaget1947PIN\"><span dir=\"auto\">object permanence<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0, forms a cornerstone of human intelligence. We don&#8217;t simply react to the images that strike our retinas; we are constantly simulating the future in our minds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Today, artificial intelligence is attempting to cross this crucial threshold. After the era of models capable of generating text, like ChatGPT, or images, like Midjourney, a new frontier is emerging with\u00a0<\/span><em><span dir=\"auto\">world models<\/span><\/em><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0. The stakes are high: it&#8217;s about equipping machines with a form of physical, spatial, and logical common sense so that they stop imitating\u2026 and finally begin to understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">These models are already showing promising results in the laboratory or in simulated environments. However, their maturity remains limited and their real-world deployment is still restricted today.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span dir=\"auto\">Why do current AI technologies remain partially limited?<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">The most famous AI systems today are\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/comment-fonctionne-chatgpt-decrypter-son-nom-pour-comprendre-les-modeles-de-langage-206788\"><span dir=\"auto\">generative models<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0, such as Claude or ChatGPT. These excel at predicting the next word in a sentence or the next pixel in an image, relying on monumental statistical correlations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">From this basic idea, the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2204.02311\"><span dir=\"auto\">first measurable evidence of reasoning and functional common sense<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0was observed in the history of artificial intelligence (AI). However, as researchers in the field, such as\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf\"><span dir=\"auto\">Yann LeCun, scientific director of AMI Labs,<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0or Fei-Fei Li,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2601.03782v1\"><span dir=\"auto\">scientific director of Worldlabs<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0, regularly point out, these models do not have a consistent internal representation of physical reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">This is what explains, in particular, their famous\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/chatgpt-la-proposition-dopenai-pour-eviter-les-hallucinations-pourrait-tuer-son-propre-chatbot-265886\"><span dir=\"auto\">hallucinations<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0\u00a0: a language model can assert with absolute certainty that a cow&#8217;s egg is a classic cooking ingredient, simply because it manipulates concepts without fully understanding the biological constraints of the real world. To move beyond this stage of &#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perroquet_stochastique\"><span dir=\"auto\">stochastic parroting<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0\u00a0&#8221; (stochastic referring to a phenomenon or model that incorporates randomness in a structured way, like a probability calculation where the unexpected becomes a key factor), AI must integrate an architecture capable of modeling causes and effects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">This ambition is not new, but it now benefits from an unprecedented technological alignment. As early as 1943, neuroscientist\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/natureofexplanat0000crai\"><span dir=\"auto\">Kenneth Craik suggested<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0that the human brain functions by constructing small-scale models of reality to anticipate events. Thus, when we cross the street, our brain imagines in advance the trajectory of cars to know when it is safe to cross.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">What has changed since then is that we now have the computing power and mathematical frameworks necessary to test this hypothesis on the scale of complex machines. Interest in these models exploded following the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1809.01999\">pioneering <\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1803.10122\"><span dir=\"auto\">work<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<span dir=\"auto\">of David Ha and J\u00fcrgen Schmidhuber in 2018. They showed that an AI could learn to drive in a virtual environment by training almost exclusively in its own &#8220;dreams.&#8221; These &#8220;dreams&#8221; are internal simulations, created by the AI \u200b\u200bitself, that allow it to test different strategies without interacting with the real world.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span dir=\"auto\">The architecture of world models<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">These authors introduced the concept of a &#8220;world model&#8221;: an internal and structured representation of an environment that allows an agent to anticipate the consequences of their actions. The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1803.10122\"><span dir=\"auto\">virtual model<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0synthesizes observable information to construct an abstract and manipulable version of the real world, facilitating planning, simulation, and decision-making, even in complex or uncertain situations. Technically, a world model relies on a mechanism for information compression and prediction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Rather than simply identifying objects like &#8220;cat&#8221; or &#8220;ball&#8221; after learning, a world model learns to represent the world in a richer and more structured way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Initially, the system observes enormous amounts of data and extracts a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2301.04104\"><span dir=\"auto\">compact representation of essential dynamics<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0, such as the trajectory of an object, the rigidity of a surface, or the spatial interactions between several elements (the cat&#8217;s paw playing with the ball). This abstraction is not limited to labels: it captures physical and logical regularities of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">In a second step, the model can simulate future scenarios using this representation (the ball goes under an armchair and the cat tries to clear it). Thus, if the agent equipped with the previously described world model considers an action, it can predict its consequences even before executing it, in a potentially uncertain or noisy environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">In other words, unlike the simple statistical classification &#8220;this is a cat&#8221;, the world model learns a kind of internal mini-simulation of the world, which combines perception, spatial and logical understanding, and the ability to anticipate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Here, the approach remains statistical, similar to reinforcement learning, but without direct recourse to explicit physical models; it relies solely on regularities observed in the data (balls that roll under objects either come out or get stuck). This distinction between statistical and physical approaches becomes important when dealing with complex and uncertain environments, where predictions must incorporate the natural variability of the real world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Several recent proposals illustrate the potential of the statistical approach to world models.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ai.meta.com\/blog\/v-jepa-yann-lecun-ai-model-video-joint-embedding-predictive-architecture\/\"><span dir=\"auto\">Meta&#8217;s V-JEPA<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0model , for example, learns to understand complex physical interactions simply by watching videos, without any human labeling. Meanwhile, Google DeepMind recently unveiled\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/research\/publications\/60474\/\"><span dir=\"auto\">Genie<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0, an architecture capable of creating interactive virtual worlds from a single photograph, proving that the machine has\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1305.0445\"><span dir=\"auto\">previously assimilated the laws of physics and perspective<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span dir=\"auto\">Applications that affect society<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">The repercussions of this technology are massive and extend far beyond the realm of theoretical computer science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">In robotics, for example, an\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/neurorobotics\/articles\/10.3389\/fnbot.2025.1585386\/full\"><span dir=\"auto\">agent equipped with a model of the world<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0could learn to\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/why-do-humanoid-robots-still-struggle-with-the-small-stuff-20260313\/\"><span dir=\"auto\">manipulate fragile objects<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0or move around in a crowded warehouse without going through thousands of hours of costly and risky physical testing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">In the field of autonomous vehicles, pioneers like\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wayve.ai\/thinking\/introducing-gaia1\/\"><span dir=\"auto\">Wayve<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0claim to use\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2210.07729\"><span dir=\"auto\">models of the world<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0so that cars can anticipate the unpredictable behavior of pedestrians or other drivers, where conventional systems would simply react with a time delay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">In the field of healthcare,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/29487613\/\"><span dir=\"auto\">digital twins are still in the exploratory phase<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0and are used to simulate how a disease might evolve in response to an experimental treatment. However, these models do not provide definitive predictions: they are considered &#8220;probabilistic,&#8221; meaning they rely on probability calculations. In other words, they estimate several possible outcomes for a patient (improvement, stability, worsening) and assign each a probability of occurring, based on available data and statistical models. Consequently, these simulations remain estimates, not certainties. They must therefore be validated very rigorously, especially when they concern treatments that have never been tested in real-world clinical settings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Advances in AI are leading us to rethink what it truly means to &#8220;understand&#8221; and &#8220;anticipate&#8221; in a complex world. Ultimately, exploring these questions could transform not only the technology itself, but also our understanding of human cognition and creativity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">It is important to temper the enthusiasm surrounding these models. Despite the progress, it remains, for the time being, at the research and development stage. For example, in robotics and autonomous vehicles, the majority of applications are still at the prototype or pilot stage, often in highly structured environments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00146-023-01730-0\"><span dir=\"auto\">Large-scale adoption will require overcoming major<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0technical and regulatory challenges\u00a0, such as robustness in the face of unforeseen situations and security in complex real-world environments. Therefore, these models are in an advanced experimental phase and are not yet operational everywhere and at all times \u2013 even though their prospects remain very promising.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Author Bio: <\/strong>Julien Perez is a Lecturer &#8211; AI and Machine Learning at EPITA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a child who, after seeing a ball roll behind a sofa, instinctively knows that it continues to exist and can anticipate the precise spot where it will reappear. This fundamental ability, which psychology calls\u00a0object permanence\u00a0, forms a cornerstone of human intelligence. 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