{"id":228527,"date":"2026-01-07T17:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/distinct-ai-models-seem-to-converge-on-how-they-encode-reality"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:14:56","slug":"distinct-ai-models-seem-to-converge-on-how-they-encode-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/distinct-ai-models-seem-to-converge-on-how-they-encode-reality","title":{"rendered":"Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/distinct-ai-models-seem-to-converge-on-how-they-encode-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe endeavor of science is to find the universals,\u201d Isola said. \u201cWe could study the ways in which models are different or disagree, but that somehow has less explanatory power than identifying the commonalities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other researchers argue that it\u2019s more productive to focus on where models\u2019 representations differ. Among them is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/the-computing-pioneer-helping-ai-see-20231024\/\">Alexei Efros<\/a>, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, who has been an adviser to three of the four members of the MIT team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re all good friends and they\u2019re all very, very smart people,\u201d Efros said. \u201cI think they\u2019re wrong, but that\u2019s what science is about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe endeavor of science is to find the universals,\u201d Isola said. \u201cWe could study the ways in which models are different or disagree, but that somehow has less explanatory power than identifying the commonalities.\u201d Other researchers argue that it\u2019s more productive to focus on where models\u2019 representations differ. Among them is Alexei Efros, a researcher [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228527","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}