{"id":23301,"date":"2025-11-16T12:09:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23301"},"modified":"2025-11-17T10:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:04:41","slug":"a-brief-history-of-the-world-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/16\/a-brief-history-of-the-world-models\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of the World (Models)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Friday I got to meet Dr. Fei-Fei Li,<\/a> “the godmother of AI,” at the launch party for her new company, World Labs (see her launch blog post<\/a>). We got to chat a bit about a paradox of complexity: that as computer models for perceiving & representing the world grow massively more sophisticated<\/strong>, the interfaces for doing common things\u2014e.g. moving a person in a photo\u2014can get radically simpler<\/strong> & more intentional. I’ll have more to say about this soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, here’s her fascinating & wide-ranging conversation with Lenny Rachitsky. I’m always a sucker for a good Platonic allegory-of-the-cave reference. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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