Spatial Web + Active Inference: Beyond LLMs | Dan Mapes
No Way Out
Building World Models and Organizational Readiness
Dan advises starting with small, evolving world models and enabling domain experts to build specialized AIs that interoperate.
đ **Spatial Web + Active Inference = Intelligent Planet**
Dan Mapes (Versus AI, Spatial Web Foundation) joins *No Way Out* to **destroy LLM myths** and reveal **FEP-powered 3D web**
What if the web didnât just host pagesâit hosted intelligence? We sit down with Dan Mapes, director of the Spatial Web Foundation and co-founder of Verses AI, to unpack how a shared protocol, digital twins, and Active Inference could turn todayâs internet into a living, learning fabric that understands space, time, and context. Instead of one giant model, imagine thousands of expert AIsâcardiology, ports, power gridsâeach built by domain leaders, all interoperable and discoverable like websites. Thatâs not hype; itâs a shift from a 2D information web to a 3D web of intelligence.
We explore Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle and Active Inference with real-world stakes: energy efficiency closer to brains than data centers, autonomous decisions that donât break when the world changes, and robotics that adapt without million-dollar pre-training. Dan explains how world models evolve through sensing and action, why protocols matter more than monoliths, and how decentralization enables hyperâlocal solutions that still plug into a global network. From OODA to flow, meditation to geometry, we con
John R. Boyd's Conceptual Spiral was originally titled No Way Out. In his own words:
âThere is no way out unless we can eliminate the features just cited. Since we donât know how to do this, we must continue the whirl of reorientationâŠâ
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John Boydâs Conceptual Spiral was originally titled âNo Way Out.â In his words:
âThere is no way out unless we can eliminate the features just cited. Since we donât know how to do this, we must continue the whirl of reorientationâŠâ
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