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SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds

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Re: SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds

#41

OK, AI playing video games is cool. But you know what's really really cool? It looks like SIMA 2 is controlling the mouse and reading the screen at something approaching 30+fps. WANT. Computer use agents are so slow right now, this is really something. I wonder what the architecture is for this.

Its even cooler if humans find something to be excited about in this world, since AI is replacing everything we do.

Re: SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds

#42
post #22

I hope we can get some (ideally local) version of this we can use as a "gaming minion". There's a lot of games where I probably would have played more if I could delegate the grind. If they're not that competent, it adds to the fun a little even.

I would love Minecraft with more intelligent villagers I could boss around to mine and build for me.

So factorio?

Re: SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds

#44
post #22

I hope we can get some (ideally local) version of this we can use as a "gaming minion". There's a lot of games where I probably would have played more if I could delegate the grind. If they're not that competent, it adds to the fun a little even.

I've always wanted an AI that can play my video games for me, so that I can spend my time doing more fun and fulfilling things, like cleaning the toilet, folding my laundry, washing my dishes, taking out the garbage. Now I will no longer have to worry about the annoying chores in life, like drawing art, writing poetry, or playing video games

Re: SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds

#45

OK, AI playing video games is cool. But you know what's really really cool? It looks like SIMA 2 is controlling the mouse and reading the screen at something approaching 30+fps. WANT. Computer use agents are so slow right now, this is really something. I wonder what the architecture is for this.

I desperately want an AI agent that can use my phone for me. Just something that takes instructs for each screen and execute it.

"Open Chrome"

"Go to xyz.com"

"open hamburger menu"

"Click login"

etc. etc.

Re: SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds

#47

OK, AI playing video games is cool. But you know what's really really cool? It looks like SIMA 2 is controlling the mouse and reading the screen at something approaching 30+fps. WANT. Computer use agents are so slow right now, this is really something. I wonder what the architecture is for this.

I desperately want an AI agent that can use my phone for me. Just something that takes instructs for each screen and execute it. "Open Chrome" "Go to xyz.com" "open hamburger menu" "Click login" etc. etc.

Isn't that what the voice a11y tools have been doing for years. Why do you need AI for that.

https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6151...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111778

Re: SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds

#48

>We’ve observed that, throughout the course of training, SIMA 2 agents can perform increasingly complex and new tasks, bootstrapped by trial-and-error and Gemini-based feedback. >In subsequent training, SIMA 2’s own experience data can then be used to train the next, even more capable version of the agent. We were even able to leverage SIMA 2’s capacity for self-improvement in newly created Genie environments – a maj…

That’s what it sounded like to me, a plain text interface between two distinct systems.

That’s what Claude Plays Pokémon is.

Re: SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds

#49
post #37
post #6

The gap between high level and low level control of robots is closing. Right now thousands of hours of task specific training data is being collected and trained on to create models that can control robots to execute specific tasks in specific contexts. This essentially turns the operation of a robot into a kind of video game, where inputs are only needed a in low-dimensional abstract form, such as "empty the dishwas…

I work on a much easier problem (physics-based character animation) after spending a few years in motion planning, and I haven’t really seen anything to suggest that the problem is going to be solved any time soon by collecting more data.

Why? Physics of large discrete objects (such as a robot) isn't very complicated.

I thought it's fast accurate OCR that's holding everything back.

Re: SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds

#50

OK, AI playing video games is cool. But you know what's really really cool? It looks like SIMA 2 is controlling the mouse and reading the screen at something approaching 30+fps. WANT. Computer use agents are so slow right now, this is really something. I wonder what the architecture is for this.

I desperately want an AI agent that can use my phone for me. Just something that takes instructs for each screen and execute it. "Open Chrome" "Go to xyz.com" "open hamburger menu" "Click login" etc. etc.

Droidrun did a Show HN recently. It's exactly that.
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