World Mechanics Co-founder Pushes Back on Self-Improving LLMs Solving Physical AI
soniajoseph_ · x · 2026-10-20
In The Information's AI Deep Dive episode, World Mechanics co-founder Sonia Joseph questions the leap that self-improving LLMs can simply go solve physical AI: "the physical world is not like the digital world, there's time, there's slowness." A substantive counterpoint to the self-improvement-to-embodiment narrative, highlighting slow feedback loops and high trial-and-error costs in the real world.
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