Mark Cuban is describing the moment AI stops reading us and starts reading the world.
Cuban: “We’re going from large language models, I think, to what’s called a world view approach, where it’s built on understanding the physics of the world and being able to take video and understand it.”
Language was the easiest place to start. It was the first place with enough structure to prove the method works.
The method reads backward. Anything built by rules carries those rules in its shape, and seeing enough of the output gives them back.
Point that at protein folding and fifty years of failure comes apart. The folding was regular the whole time. Nobody had enough eyes on it.
Cuban: “I invested in one company that’s putting up satellites that can look at different materials and tell you what the makeup of those natural materials are. Is it wood, is it rock, whatever is in there. Like a spectrograph.”
That satellite produces the first record ever made of what it passes over, and no person wrote a word of it.
We have flown over every part of this planet and measured almost none of it.
Geology built two centuries of theory on whatever the ground happened to expose. Outcrops, riverbanks, road cuts.
Cuban: “I think that’s going to supersede a lot of what Claude and Grok, etc., are doing.”
Science runs forward. You form a theory, work out what it predicts, then go see whether the world agrees.
That order came from a limit inside the person. A mind holds a few variables at once and has to guess which ones matter before collecting anything.
Reading backward starts at the finished object and recovers the rule that made it.
The protein was already folded and the rock already had its composition. The answer sat inside the outcome the entire time.
Every mystery is a solved problem whose instructions we lost. Weather, cells, markets, the interior of the earth.
We called them random because the pattern ran larger than a person.
Cuban: “We haven’t seen the best of AI, in my opinion, and it’s going to just get crazier and crazier and crazier.”
Text taught us how to read.
The physical world is what the reading was for. Reaching it takes machines that move through it and collect what nobody wrote down.
Nothing in nature is arbitrary. Every outcome had causes, and causes leave their signature in what they produce.
The world has been describing itself since long before anyone was here to notice.
We finally built something that can read it.
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