Genie 4

The playable element is cool PR but the news is that endless synthetic training data for embodied AI models is basically here or close.

It's hard for me to understand Google's redefinition of "world models" (basically: a txt2videogame modality for LLMs) as anything other than an attempt to bury Yann Lecun's definition of "world models", which includes an implicit bear case against LLMs and thus Google's stock price.

This should not exist.

Neuralink integration and I'm out of here.

Wow, wow! What a treat! Such a fascinating time to be alive. Talk about fast feedback loops! This is pretty quick loops for trying out ideas!

I'm very impressed!

all the things you've dreamt of - your vivid dreams - now you can replay them.

for all the a.i misery with hardware prices i.e ram.

such a wonderful world we live in now.

It looks sooo boring and generic that it's hard for me to imagine anyone thought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFfPkUJd_Jk is a good showcase.

Google aren't the only ones with this tech. You can try out a 24/7 rolling set of video feeds for yourself at https://fal.live

An LLM generates four alternative prompts for what could happen next and there's a real time vote running for each option. It's trippy, like watching someone's dream.

Showing off an anglo-bias with the Japanese train station in the 1980s, with a man speaking english.

Infinite Tsukuyomi is coming soon…

So world models capture inherent complexity of physical reality to help teach AI about hidden laws which probably helps train both LLMs and multimodal models used for autonomous vehicles and robots? And AMD acquiring World Labs is a move to outdo Nvidia’s work in this space. And Google probably sees this as a gateway to a new platform of autonomous vehicles and humanoids that they could rent out as a CSP? Competing with Nvidia, Tesla and complementing Waymo. Am I getting that right?

The third video is proof that v4 can, ekhm, walk slower?

Good moving toward open world:)

The implications for what we now call video games are crazy.

im realy excited for this

Is anyone actually making any games with these tools? Like, can I play one on Steam or something?

So if those genie 4 characters have all individual chain of thought reasoning and persistent retrospection / recollection, how do these human characters know they are not living in a simulation made by biological humans? Not sure you understand what i'm getting at. Some ethical questions do arise.

Failure modes?

Show them or I'll assume this is pure marketing.

If it’s not open weights, no one should care.

It doesn’t matter how impressive your demo is if it takes a literal data center to run.

Actual innovation can’t be seen at the let’s just throw money at it level. But, it can be seen at the that’s cool. I can run it on my laptop level.

But to what end? How does this help humanity? How does this help us encounter truth and beauty? Whether you look at this from a utilitarian angle or from a transcendental one, it is a collosal waste of time, energy, and money.

Why can't Google just announce something and release at the same day, not always this stupid wait list stuff.

Prompt: make a press release that isn't a slideshow on this company's own browser and hardware platform.

Who'd be down to write a science fiction novel where creating fake images is a crime and not a product?

Hmm, wonder if Databricks trademarked their Genie AI product.

What the fuck are the little wasd/arrow keys supposed to mean? They have no relationship to the movement of the character or the camera. It's just flashing buttons.

So does this export 3d assets or an Unreal/godot/unity project so it can be turne dinto a game or is it limited to their runtime?

“audio-like music”

"Building world models responsibly"

... I'm suddenly reminded of Iain M Banks' "Surface Detail".

Impressive slop. But slop nonetheless.

supper cool

i am starting to get model fatigue..

What is this for? I cannot understand these models. They are very much polluting the internet with nonsense and use capacity that people and businesses need for actual work.

If these are the cause of why I have to pay 2-4x I used to for a computer, then Google should go fuck themselves.

this is the gta6 I am was hoping for

pretty cool !

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Not really impressive at all at this point. That dragon clip was pretty awful. If you told me this page was from 2024 I’d believe you.

why does this need to exist?

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From the auto-generated captions on the YouTube video on this page.

> Genie form [sic] can simulate scenarios

It's kind of amazing: the juxtaposition of such advanced generative AI and such terrible speech-to-text coming from the same parent company.

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As I said before, World models will become simulation engines of AAA games where there is no need to release the actual game artifact and even if the game exists as a binary artifact, it will never be released and will be available on their hosted cloud back-end, then simulated and streamed back to you.

So, Stadia + World Models = New generation of DRM for games.

Y tho?

Every increment of advance in this field is an increment of evidence that we are simulations.

Who is asking for this? Do advertisers really want this? I feel dread about many of the AI products being sold. They're mostly tools to help funnel money from the users to the bosses.