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PAWBench: How Far Are We from Probabilistically Aligned World Modeling?

Recent video generation models are increasingly framed as world models. Many physical processes can unfold in more than one valid way. Therefore, a world model should reproduce not only a plausible trajectory, but also the distribution of possible behaviors under the same initial observation and action. We call this distribution-level requirement probabilistic alignment. However, existing…

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Zuckerberg's bold plan to replace Meta employees with AI has imploded

Meta had been preparing a restructuring program called Project OT, or Organization Transformation. According to an internal planning document reviewed by Reuters and three people familiar with the project, the plan was built around an "AI-native" model that would rely more heavily on AI agents and smaller groups of employees....

·techspot.com

I Spent 1 Billion Tokens Making a Real Chip with AI — and Found Its True Limits

I Spent 1 Billion Tokens Making a Real Chip with AI — and Found Its True Limits TL;DR: This is not "I prompted an AI to make a chip." It's the consolidated retrospective of two month-long projects — a…

  • Researcher spent 1 billion tokens on two-month AI chip projects
  • AI agents successfully wrote code and orchestrated flows
  • Limitations include premature completion and undefined register states

·dev.to

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