Every AI You Know Learned the World From Us. This One Did Not
Every AI system you have heard of was trained on human writing, which means it learned the world secondhand, through our descriptions of it. Two researchers declined a Bezos-backed offer worth more than two billion dollars to build something with a different foundation: a model trained to predict how physical systems actually behave. Here is what a neural operator is, why chip design and weather are the first targets, and why almost none of it is verified yet.
