@drfeifei: AI’s next frontier is Spatial Intelligence, a technology that will turn seeing into reasoning, perception into action, a…

In this new essay, I lay out the framework for what truly spatially intelligent world models must achieve—three essential capabilities for building AI that creates with a storyteller's imagination, navigates with a first responder's fluency, and reasons about space with scientific precision. 2/n https://drfeifei.substack.com/p/from-words-to-worlds-spatial-intelligence…

“AI has never been more exciting. Generative AI models such as LLMs have moved from research labs to everyday life, becoming tools of creativity, productivity, and communication for billions of people. Yet they remain wordsmiths in the dark; eloquent but inexperienced, knowledgeable but ungrounded. Spatial intelligence will transform how we create and interact with real and virtual worlds—revolutionizing storytelling, creativity, robotics, scientific discovery, and beyond.” 3/n

At the core of unlocking spatial intelligence is the development of world models—a new type of generative AI that must meet a fundamentally different set of challenges than LLMs. These models must generate spatially consistent worlds that obey physical laws, process multimodal inputs from images to actions, and predict how those worlds evolve or be interacted with over time. 4/n

The applications of spatial intelligence are wide ranging. “Creative tools are emerging now—World Labs’ Marble already puts these capabilities in creators’ and storytellers’ hands. Robotics represents an ambitious mid-term horizon as we refine the loop between perception and action. The most transformative scientific applications will take longer but promise a profound impact on human flourishing.” 5/n

“The philosopher Wittgenstein once wrote that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” I’m not a philosopher. But I know at least for AI, there is more than just words. Spatial intelligence represents the frontier beyond language—the capability that links imagination, perception and action, and opens possibilities for machines to truly enhance human life, from healthcare to creativity, from scientific discovery to everyday assistance.” n/n

Important ? Yes. Can it be done other ways right now ? Yes. Here's a question, how do people born blind, navigate the world ?

Take a whirlwind tour inside the mind of a neurosymbolic machine intelligence as it's observing the room and constructing a real-time knowledge graph to model & connect the people, objects, and activities that it sees and hears! More than a year in the making, I was gratified to x.com/NEARProtocol/s…

Added to my evening reading session.

Profound essay, Dr. Li. You've perfectly captured the core problem: today's AI is "eloquent but inexperienced, knowledgeable but ungrounded". You're right that to be "geometrically, physically, and dynamically consistent", models need a new foundation. We believe this requires a

One of the most exciting frontiers for us to build in yet! Excited to see the impact of world models on storytelling, virtual worlds, digital economics and much more

Very engaging article the whole way through. If engagement is gated, is it ever experience?

Excellent @drfeifei

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