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The dawn of a world simulator

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Re: The dawn of a world simulator

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Post by pedalpete »

This looks interesting, but can someone explain to me how this is different from video generators using the previous frames as inputs to expand on the next frame?

Is this more than recursive video? If so, how?

Re: The dawn of a world simulator

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Post by superb_dev »

None of these examples videos seem like the kind of “experiments” that they’re talking about simulating with these models.

I was expecting them to test a simple hypothesis and compare the model results to a real world test

Re: The dawn of a world simulator

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Post by ainiriand »

superb_dev wrote: post #3

None of these examples videos seem like the kind of “experiments” that they’re talking about simulating with these models. I was expecting them to test a simple hypothesis and compare the model results to a real world test

It is not a world simulator, looks like a world fantasy.

Re: The dawn of a world simulator

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Post by smusamashah »

pedalpete wrote: post #2

This looks interesting, but can someone explain to me how this is different from video generators using the previous frames as inputs to expand on the next frame? Is this more than recursive video? If so, how?

See the demo on their homepage. Calling it a world simulator is a marketing gimmick. It's a worse video generator but you can interact with it in real time and direct the video a little bit. Next version of this thing will be worth looking, this one isnt.

Re: The dawn of a world simulator

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Post by nowittyusername »

smusamashah wrote: post #5
pedalpete wrote: post #2

This looks interesting, but can someone explain to me how this is different from video generators using the previous frames as inputs to expand on the next frame? Is this more than recursive video? If so, how?

See the demo on their homepage. Calling it a world simulator is a marketing gimmick. It's a worse video generator but you can interact with it in real time and direct the video a little bit. Next version of this thing will be worth looking, this one isnt.

There is soo much marketing bs around these things it drives me nuts. and it doesn't help that the large labs and credible individuals like denis use these terms. "world models" are video generator with contextual memory but that term is soo misplaced. when one thinks of a "world model" you expect the thing to be at least be physics engine driven from its foundation, not the other way around where everything is generated and assumed at best.
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