Open-world AI: a Tale of Three Requirements
arXiv:2610.20782v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The closed world asks AI for specialized competence and lets it manufacture the iid data its theory assumes: a fixed criterion licenses collecting examples until the task is covered. The open world asks for versatility --- taking up tasks a machine was not built for, from few examples and with little prior from a human designer --- and offers data that is grouped, not shuffled. Its tasks are not known in advance, so a machine must do inference-tim…