The Objective Is the Bottleneck: Latent World Models Encode What Their Planners Cannot Use

A shocking twist: AI fails at long-term planning not because it cannot predict the future, but because its goal-tracking math is broken. It's a perfect 'counterintuitive' story for tech fans. http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12959v1

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