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The 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.
I love AI but I also hope it will paradoxically make people realize the value of real life experiences and human relationships.
In 6-12 months they will announce another really cool tech demo. And so on.
They have been doing this for decades. To us this seems like the starting point of something really cool. To them it's a delivery; finally time to move on to something else.
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I think this is pretty well established as far as neurologists are concerned and explains a lot of things. Like dreaming for instance.. just something like the model running without sensory input constraining it.
Always wondered if dreaming is some kind of daily memory consolidation function. Logged short-term/episodic memory being filtered and the important bits baked by replaying in a limited simulacrum.
Now I can't stop thinking about _The Experience Machine_ by Andy Clark. It theorizes that this is how humans navigate and experience the real world: Our brains generate what we think the world around is like and our senses don't so much directly process visual information but instead act like a kind of loss function for our internal simulations. Then we use that error to update our internal model of the world. In thi…
Another analogy that kinda fits in with what you're saying is the post-processing on smartphone "photos." At what point does the processing become so strong that it's less a photograph and more a work of computational impressionism?
This actually happened.
Anyone else going to try it and just keep getting a 404 page?
No idea how long it is supposed to take. They can pull a 3D world out of thin air but they apparently can't vibe-code a progress bar...
Edit: Now it's saying "We'll notify you when it's ready, and you'll have 30 seconds to enter your world. You are 37th in the queue." Go to restroom, come back 1 minute later: "The time to enter your world ran out." Lame-o.
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Ironically the physics are kind of my biggest criticism. They call these "world models", but I think it's more accurate to call them "video game models" because they employ "video game physics" rather than real world physics, among other things This is most evident in the way things collide.
It's getting better staggeringly fast, just a year ago I wouldn't expect it to be at even video game physics level so quickly. If there is a possibility where it continue to improve at a similar rate with llms. A way to simulate fluid dynamics or structural dynamics with reasonable accuracy and speed can unlock much faster pace of innovation in the physical world. (And validated with rigorous scientific methods)
A nice thing about numerical simulation from first principles, is it innately supports arbitrary speed/precision, that's in fact the backbone of the mathematical analysis for why it works.
In some cases, as is the case for CFD, we're actually mathematically screwed because you just have to resolve the small scales to get the macro dynamics. So the standard remains a kind of hack, which is to introduce additional equations (turbulence models) that steer the dynamics in place of the small (unresolved) scales. We know how to do better though (DNS), but it costs an arm and a leg (like years to milenia on a super computer).
Now I can't stop thinking about _The Experience Machine_ by Andy Clark. It theorizes that this is how humans navigate and experience the real world: Our brains generate what we think the world around is like and our senses don't so much directly process visual information but instead act like a kind of loss function for our internal simulations. Then we use that error to update our internal model of the world. In thi…
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Yeah and the goal of Instagram was to share quirky pictures you took with your friends. Now it’s a platform for influencers and brainrot; arguably it has done more damage than drugs to younger generations. As soon as this thing is hooked up to VR and reaches a tipping point with the general public we all know exactly what is going to happen. The creation of the most profitable, addictive and ultimately dystopian tech…
The good news is we’ll finally have an answer for the Fermi Paradox.
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That’s part of it but if you could actually pull out 3D models from these worlds, it would massively speed up game development.
You already can, check out Marble/World Labs, Meshy, and others. It's not really as much of a boon as you'd think though, since throwing together a 3D model is not the bottleneck to making a sellable video game. You've had model marketplaces for a long time now.
The 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.
Huh, yeah, the sky is blue outside and the sun is shining. Although, I am feeling a bit lazy so let me see if I can simulate a walk.