On 2/7/2026 3:55 AM, John Clark wrote:
*Why do the language model and the vision model align? Because they’re
both shadows of the same world*
<https://www.quantamagazine.org/distinct-ai-models-seem-to-converge-on-how-they-encode-reality-20260107/?mc_cid=b288d90ab2&mc_eid=1b0caa9e8c>
/The following quote is from the above: /
*"More powerful AI models seem to have more similarities in their
representations than weaker ones. Successful AI models are all alike,
and every unsuccessful model is unsuccessful in its own particular
way.[...] He would feed the pictures into the vision models and the
captions into the language models, and then compare clusters of
vectors in the two types. He observed a steady increase in
representational similarity as models became more powerful. It was
exactly what the Platonic representation hypothesis predicted."*
/In my opinion the above finding has profound philosophical
implications. /
Humans perceive a common reality and invented language and images to
represent it.
I wonder where this goes when considering several of our most successful
representations of reality, quantum mechanics in its various formulations?
Brent
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*John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*
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