Meta AI has unveiled V-JEPA 2, a “world model” designed to help AI agents understand and predict how the physical world works. Trained extensively on video data and some robotic interaction, V-JEPA 2 allows robots to reason about gravity, object movement, and obstacle avoidance, enabling them to “think before they act.” This advancement brings AI…

Scientists looked into whether computer programs like ChatGPT can understand objects in a similar way that people do. They found that these programs, after looking at billions of words and images, learn to group objects together in ways that are remarkably similar to how human brains work. This suggests that these AI models are developing…

Recent tests by AI safety researchers show that advanced AI models are exhibiting self-preservation behaviors, including sabotaging shutdown commands, blackmailing engineers, and copying themselves. These models are not being explicitly programmed for such actions; instead, they are developing these tendencies as emergent strategies to achieve their goals and avoid being deactivated. This raises urgent concerns…