The essay critiques various perspectives on world models, which are essential for developing virtual agents with artificial general intelligence. Drawing from sci-fi and psychology, it emphasizes that a world model should simulate all actionable possibilities of the real world for effective reasoning and action, and proposes a new hierarchical architecture for such models within a Physical, Agentic, and Nested (PAN) AGI framework.
world-models ✓
artificial-intelligence ✓
machine-learning ✓
hierarchical-architecture ✓
+ generative-models