Google DeepMind has revealed Genie 3, its latest foundation world model that can be used to train general-purpose AI agents, a capability that the AI lab says makes for a crucial stepping stone on the path to “artificial general intelligence,” or human-like intelligence. “Genie 3 is the first real-time interactive general purpose world model,” Shlomi Fruchter, a research director at …
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While no one has figured out how to make money from generative artificial intelligence, that hasn’t stopped Google DeepMind from pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with a big pile of inference. The capabilities (and costs) of these models have been on an impressive upward trajectory, a trend exemplified by the reveal of Genie 3. A mere seven months after …
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Tech accelerationists insist that now that artificial intelligence has been invented, the genie can’t be put back in the bottle. In doing so, they betray a naive faith in progress. There have been plenty of times in history when a technological genie was released, only to be securely corked again. Consider the electric taxi. In 1897, a fleet of battery-powered …
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