Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

From my best guess: it's a video generation model like the ones we already head. But they condition inputs (movement direction, viewangle). Perhaps they aren't relative inputs but absolute and there is a bit of state simulation going on? [although some demo videos show physics interactions like bumping against objects - so that might be unlikely, or maybe it's 2D and the up axis is generated??].

It's clearly trained on a game engine as I can see screenspace reflection artefacts being learned. They also train on photoscans/splats... some non realistic elements look significantly lower fidelity too..

some inconsistencies I have noticed in the demo videos:

- wingsuit discollcusions are lower fidelity (maybe initialized by high resolution image?)

- garden demo has different "geometry" for each variation, look at the 2nd hose only existing in one version (new "geometry" is made up when first looked at, not beforehand).

- school demo has half a caroutside the window? and a suspiciously repeating pattern (infinite loop patterns are common in transformer models that lack parameters, so they can scale this even more! also might be greedy sampling for stability)

- museum scene has odd reflection in the amethyst box, like the rear mammoth doesn't have reflections on the right most side of the box before it's shown through the box. The tusk reflection just pops in. This isn't fresnel effect.

>Vote for me and we'll hand free money to everyone and the robots will do the work

at the moment is the robots doing the work don't exist. Things will change when they do.

Our product was a virtual 3d world made up of satellite data. Think of a very quick, higher-res version of google earth, but the most important bit was that you uploaded a GPS track and it re-created the world around that space. The camera was always focused on the target, so it wasn't a first person point of view, which, for the most part, our brains aren't very good at understanding over an extended period of time.

For those curious about the use case, our product was used by every paraglider in the world, commercial drone operations, transportation infrastructure sales/planning, out-door events promotions (specifically bike and ultramarathon races).

Though I suspect we will see a new form of media come from this. I don't pretend to suggest exactly what this media will be, but mixing this with your photos we can see the potential for an infinitely re-framable and zoomable type of photo media.

Creating any "watchable" content will be challenging if the camera is not target focused, and it makes it difficult to create a storyline if you can't dictate where the viewer is pointed.

Why would beings in simulations be conscious?

Or maybe running simulations is really expensive and so it's done sometimes (more than "almost none") but only sometimes (nowhere near "we are almost certainly").

Or simulations are common but limited? You don't need to simulate a universe if all you want to do is simulate a city.

The "trilemma" is an extreme example of black-and-white thinking. In the real world, things cost resources and so there are tradeoffs -- so middle grounds are the rule, not extremes.