{"id":220996,"date":"2025-08-26T16:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/can-large-language-models-figure-out-the-real-world-new-metric-measures-ais-predictive-power"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:02:57","slug":"can-large-language-models-figure-out-the-real-world-new-metric-measures-ais-predictive-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/can-large-language-models-figure-out-the-real-world-new-metric-measures-ais-predictive-power","title":{"rendered":"Can large language models figure out the real world? New metric measures AI\u2019s predictive power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-large-language-models-figure-out-the-real-world-new-metric-measures-ais-predictive-power.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 17th century, German astronomer Johannes Kepler figured out the laws of motion that made it possible to accurately predict where our solar system\u2019s planets would appear in the sky as they orbit the sun. But it wasn\u2019t until decades later, when Isaac Newton formulated the universal laws of gravitation, that the underlying principles were understood.<\/p>\n<p>Although they were inspired by Kepler\u2019s laws, they went much further, and made it possible to apply the same formulas to everything from the trajectory of a cannon ball to the way the moon\u2019s pull controls the tides on Earth\u2014or how to launch a satellite from Earth to the surface of the moon or planets.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s sophisticated <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/artificial+intelligence+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial intelligence systems<\/a> have gotten very good at making the kind of specific predictions that resemble Kepler\u2019s orbit predictions. But do they know why these predictions work, with the kind of deep understanding that comes from basic principles like Newton\u2019s laws?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 17th century, German astronomer Johannes Kepler figured out the laws of motion that made it possible to accurately predict where our solar system\u2019s planets would appear in the sky as they orbit the sun. But it wasn\u2019t until decades later, when Isaac Newton formulated the universal laws of gravitation, that the underlying principles [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}