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Tsinghua Professor Deng Zhidong: Physical AI Has Not Yet Had Its ChatGPT Moment; World Models Are Key

Tsinghua University professor Deng Zhidong believes physical AI as a whole is still in an early exploratory stage and has not yet had its own ChatGPT moment; robots being able to run and dance does not mean they can enter homes to care for the elderly. He proposes that the key to a breakthrough lies in world models: letting AI rehearse consequences and costs before executing actions, combined with tasks and human intent, with evaluation criteria being generality, task success rate, and generalization ability. He also suggests connecting cloud, edge, and devices through mobile communications and deploying shared computing power at the edge to ease cost and power consumption pressures on device-side computing.

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