Q1What is a world model?+
It is a model that understands the dynamics of the real world, including physics and spatial properties. It is an understanding of the world as it really exists. It can be as big or as small as needed. For example, the world model for a satellite is everything associated with that satellite. That satellite’s world model is thorough and complete, but simple and concise. No room for error.
Q2What is synthetic knowledge?+
To be clear, synthetic knowledge is not a symbolic representation of knowledge but is knowledge itself. It is derived from information, patterns, and insights generated artificially by models, rather than directly from real-world observation. It is human knowledge transformed into synthetic form.
Q3What does deterministic mean?+
It is a system, process, or philosophy where the outcome is entirely determined by initial conditions and inputs, leaving no room for randomness or chance.
Q4What does probabilistic mean?+
It is a system, process, or philosophy based on or adapted to a theory of probability. It is subject to or involves chance variation.
Q5What does hallucination mean?+
This term has been applied to large language model AI systems that provide a false, inaccurate or nonsensical response ungrounded in truth or facts.
Q6What is a high-stakes industry?+
It is a sector where the consequences of a mistake, failure, or poor decision could pose significant repercussions such as banking, healthcare, and the legal profession. Included in high-stakes industries are mission-critical systems.
Q7What does mission-critical mean?+
Mission-critical systems are vital to the functioning of a civilized society and for the public good, such as national security, finance, and energy production & distribution. Disruptions in any of these could lead to catastrophic financial, public safety or human losses.
Q8What does zero-defect mean?+
It is the concept of operations or quality management focused on preventing errors. Defects are unacceptable.
Q9What does air-gapped mean?+
A device or system that is physically isolated from outside networks: no internet, no cloud, no data centers. It is not vulnerable to external bad actors.
Q10What is an edge device?+
It is a hardware component located at the boundary of a network—close to data sources or users—that collects, processes, and analyzes data locally rather than sending it to a centralized cloud or data center.
Q11How can sapiens be audited?+
Auditing means being able to trace back how any given output or behavior was determined by the system. Both the knowledge that sapiens contain and the program that reasons about it are written and readable by humans. Knowledge that supports specific applications is certified and owned by the customer.
