A world model is an AI system that predicts the consequences of actions before they are executed, enabling an AI system to accomplish new tasks without being explicitly trained on them by planning sequences of actions.

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Yann LeCun

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a world model is something that would allow a system to predict what is going to be the state of the world when I take this action. Can I predict the consequences of my own actions?

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Yann LeCun: Special Lecture on AI and World ModelsAl-Khwarizmi Applied Mathematics Webinar
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:03:11 PM

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