This is the plot of The Peripheral, right? Love the way the second half of that book turned out. Never finished Agency..
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
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#132If only Google had the technology for game streaming... Oh wait
RIP Stadia.
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#133Really great to see this released! Some interesting videos from early-access users: - https://youtu.be/15KtGNgpVnE?si=rgQ0PSRniRGcvN31&t=197 walking through various cities - https://x.com/fofrAI/status/2016936855607136506 helicopter / flight sim - https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2016919922727850333 space station, https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2016920340602278368 Dunkin' Donuts - https://youtu.be/lALGud1Ynhc?si=…
Any thoughts about Project Genie?
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#134Re: Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
The entertainment industry, as big as it is, just doesn't have as much profit potential as robots and AI agents that can replace human labor. Just look at how Nvidia has pivoted from gaming and rendering to AI. The other examples you've given are neat, but for players like Google they are mostly an afterthought.
Robotics: $88B TAM Gaming: $350B TAM All media and entertainment: $3T TAM Manufacturing: $5T TAM Roughly the same story. This tech is going to revolutionize "films" and gaming. The entire entertainment industry is going to transform around it. When people aren't buying physical things, they're distracting themselves with media. Humans spend more time and money on that than anything else. Machines or otherwise. AI imp…
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#136Everyone here seems too caught up in the idea that Genie is the product, and that its purpose is to be a video game, movie, or VR environment. That is not the goal. The purpose of world models like Genie is to be the "imagination" of next-generation AI and robotics systems: a way for them to simulate the outcomes of potential actions in order to inform decisions.
Like LLMs, though: Do you really think a simulation will get them to all the corner cases robots/AI needs to know about, or will it be largely the same problem -- they'll be just good enough to fool the engineers and make the business ops drool and they'll be put into production and suddenly we'll see in a year or two stories about robots crushing peoples hands, stepping in drains and falling over or falling off roofs cause of some bizarre miscommunication between training and reality.
So, like, it's very important to understand the lineage of training and not just the "this is it"
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#137This would be really cool if polished and integrated with VR.
Exactly this, it would essentially be a STTNG Holodeck
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love AI but I also hope it will paradoxically make people realize the value of real life experiences and human relationships.
Or maybe it will just make people realize the value of fake life experiences and human relationships.
The American public is no different than an American corporation; trying to extract as much allegiance and loyalty as possible for as little compensation as possible.
Your neighbors in the street protesting for comprehensive single payer healthcare? Yeah they're perfectly fine leaving your existence up to "market forces".
Copy-paste office workers everywhere reciting memorized platitudes and compliance demands.
You're telling me I could interact even less with such selfish (and often useless given their limited real skillset) people? Deal.
America needs to rethink the compensation package if it wants to survive as a socio-political meme. Happy to call myself Canadian or Chinese if their offer is better. No bullets needed.
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#139Finally all my anime figurines will come to life
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#140The more of this I see the more I want to spend time away from screens and doing those things I love to do in the real world.
Most people don't have access to anything particularly nice in the real world. It's reality privilege. Most of humanity will yearn for the worlds that AI will cook up for them, customized to their whims.
>Most people don't have access to anything particularly nice in the real world.
What data/metric are you drawing from to arrive at this conclusion? How could you even realistically make such a statement?