Caltech's Anima Anandkumar discusses physical world forgiveness on podcast

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] · 2026-08-21 23:08

Anima Anandkumar from the California Institute of Technology discussed the physical world's surprising forgiveness in a podcast. The conversation touched upon topics related to NFL Sunday Ticket and YouTube's platform. AI

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Latent Space (podcast video) TIER_1 English(EN) · Latent Space · 2026-08-21 23:08

🔬 The Physical World Is More Forgiving Than You Think — Anima Anandkumar, Caltech

Most of AI is pointed at language. Anima Anandkumar points it at the physical world, weather, fusion, materials, the systems physics writes down as equations, and finds the usual playbook breaks. There isn't enough data, the resolution is brutal, and no transformer is big enough.…