World Models, Free Energy, and a Plastic Dinosaur

CleanTechnica
By Michael BarnardFeb 28, 2026, 2:20 pm103 ptsTrending
In 2020, I wrote about a meter-high robotic, smart fabric wrapped Plastic Dinosaur that gained consciousness to explore machine learning. A series of articles on the core concepts of machine learning and neural nets, as they existed then, each started with a brief story about Plastic Dinosaur as it learned ...…

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