DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, announced the release of Genie 3, a new AI system capable of generating interactive virtual environments in real-time—and bringing us one step closer to the Holodeck. Google says in a DeepMind update that with a simple text prompt, Genie 3 can create dynamic, navigable scenes that run at 24 frames-per-second in 720p resolution. Granted, Genie 3 can be …
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Could AI “world models” could be the most viable path to fully photorealistic interactive VR? Much of the “virtual reality” seen in science fiction involves putting on a headset, or connecting a neural interface, to enter an interactive virtual world that looks and behaves as if entirely real. In contrast, while high-end VR of today can have relatively realistic graphics, …
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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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