AI models cover modes, brains seek them: the path to a post-slop world
beffjezos · x · 2026-08-31
The tweet contrasts AI models trained to minimize cross-entropy (mode-covering) with brains minimizing variational free energy (mode-seeking). The author suggests that stochastic-thermodynamic algorithms and computation are the path to a post-slop world.
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