It&#x27;s been a while since I worked in AI research but although I worked in agent architecture and model based reasoning I was came to believe in the approach of &quot;the world is its own best model&quot; associated with Rodney Brooks:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Subsumption_architecture" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Subsumption_architecture</a><p>i.e. Why put so much effort into modelling the world to allow reasoning when you can interact with the world to answer the same questions.