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by TealMyEal 620 days ago
What's the end goal here? personalised games for everyone. ultra-graphics. i dont really see how this is going to be better than our engine based systems.

I love being a horse in the 1900s that automobilewill never take off /s
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visarga 620 days ago
The goal is to train agents that can imagine consequences before acting. But it could also become a cheap way to create experiences and user interfaces on the fly, imagine if you can have any app UI dreamed up like that, not just games. Generative visual interfaces could be a big leap over text mode.
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qayxc 620 days ago
It's a research paper. Not everything that comes out of research has an immediate real-world application in mind.

Games are just an accessible and easy to replicate context to work in, they're not an end goal or target application.

The research is about AI agents interacting with and creating world models. Such world models could just as well be alien environments - i.e. the kind of stuff an interstellar and even interplanetary probe would need to be able to do, as two-way communication over large distances is impractical.

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