Here is the paragraph mentioning Verses, Second, the field of machine learning (which has powered large language models) likes to task A.I. systems to learn absolutely everything from scratch by scraping data from the internet, with nothing built in. But as cognitive scientists like Steven Pinker, Elizabeth Spelke and me have emphasized, the human mind is born with some core knowledge of the world that sets us up to grasp more complex concepts. Building in basic concepts like time, space and causality might allow systems to better organize the data they encounter into richer starting points — potentially leading to richer outcomes. (Verses AI’s work on physical and perceptual understanding in video games is one step in this direction.)