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Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

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Re: Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

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I wouldn't want to be a hollywood production studio or game developer right now.

Same here. Though if I were a 17-year-old film fan or gamer with an imaginative drive, I would be really excited about the powerful creative tools that might become available to me soon.

Re: Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

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Consistency over multiple minutes and it runs in real time at 720p? I did not expect world models to be this good yet.

> Genie 3’s consistency is an emergent capability

So this just happened from scaling the model, rather than being a consequence of deliberate architecture changes?

Edit: here is some commentary on limitations from someone who tried it: https://x.com/tejasdkulkarni/status/1952737669894574264

> - Physics is still hard and there are obvious failure cases when I tried the classical intuitive physics experiments from psychology (tower of blocks).

> - Social and multi-agent interactions are tricky to handle. 1vs1 combat games do not work

> - Long instruction following and simple combinatorial game logic fails (e.g. collect some points / keys etc, go to the door, unlock and so on)

> - Action space is limited

> - It is far from being a real game engines and has a long way to go but this is a clear glimpse into the future.

Even with these limitations, this is still bonkers. It suggests to me that world models may have a bigger part to play in robotics and real world AI than I realized. Future robots may learn in their dreams...

Re: Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

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post #9

First AI thing that’s made me feel a bit of derealization… …and this is the worst the capabilities will ever be. Watching the video created a glimmer of doubt that perhaps my current reality is a future version of myself, or some other consciousness, that’s living its life in an AI hallucinated environment.

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Re: Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

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post #8

Yet another unavailable model from Google.. if I can't use it, I don't care. Tell me about it when it's ready to use.

What a strange take. Do you not care about news coming from the James Webb Telescope either, just because you can't play with the telescope personally?

It's a whitepaper release to share the STOTA research. This doesn't seem like an economically viable model, nor does it look polished enough to be practically usable.

Re: Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

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post #9

First AI thing that’s made me feel a bit of derealization… …and this is the worst the capabilities will ever be. Watching the video created a glimmer of doubt that perhaps my current reality is a future version of myself, or some other consciousness, that’s living its life in an AI hallucinated environment.

Same, even worse that the world was generated on the fly—nobody even hand-crafted it. That makes it even more depressing.

Re: Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

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Consistency over multiple minutes and it runs in real time at 720p? I did not expect world models to be this good yet. > Genie 3’s consistency is an emergent capability So this just happened from scaling the model, rather than being a consequence of deliberate architecture changes? Edit: here is some commentary on limitations from someone who tried it: https://x.com/tejasdkulkarni/status/1952737669894574264 > - Physi…

Bitter lesson strikes again!
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