arxivcs.CLcs.AIcs.LG2026-06-26
From Tokens to States: LLMs as a Special Case of World Models and the Continuous Path Beyond
The AI community has framed the relationship between large language models (LLMs) and world models as a dichotomy: LLMs predict tokens; world models simulate reality. Yann LeCun argues in 2022 that reaching general intelligence requires abandoning autoregressive token prediction…