AI video models may not be complete world models, but they are oddly capable of fairly sophisticated (if flawed) "simulations" of novel situations. Veo 3.1: "three toy ships, one made of iron, the other of wood, and one out of loosely packed sugar, fall into a pool of water"
This is not perfect, but it also doesn't seem like a model trained on video should be able to get so many details of the dynamics right: "honey pours down a marble statue of a toucan, the nose cracks and falls off"
Sound world models lag video world model
@emollick Wood won this battle! I can't believe it nailed the cubes so well - awesome test.
@emollick And this suggests that once artificial *spatial* intelligence is achieved (ASI), these models will be capable of testing new hypotheses and creating new knowledge. But ASI could be a ways off.
@emollick if the iron ship is die-cast solid metal, as it appears to be... it will sink, no?
@emollick somehow tool calling wpuld be nice for these like connec to unity engine or smt
@emollick I don't think many humans would pass a rigorous "water test" so this is pretty advanced for an AI. https://x.com/imleslahdin/stat...
@emollick check this excellent video bt @twominutepapers https://youtu.be/spn_eTODPg8
@emollick When your bags hit a bear market
@emollick Sugar ship's gonna have a meltdown Sugar ship's gonna have a meltdown
@emollick Your bar is quite low.
@emollick Sugar ship go brrr
In the replies to this, Demis is clearly the least distrusted AI CEO. Which is pretty ironic, given that his lab was the first, and the rest were ~all founded under the premise that the existing labs couldn’t be trusted.
I'm baffled by Google's decision to serve the dumbest possible version of Gemini in the AI search results. This is how the majority of people will experience your model, and their (reasonable) conclusion will be that it's an idiot.
the digital world is significantly less centralized around aws from the last time there was a major outage. every big company has rushed to build their own datacenters and azure rose as a major player
Life update, she said yes. 🤩👩❤️👨🐕🦺


