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by magic_hamster 543 days ago
> These video/image generators are impressive but they don't "understand" physical reality and probably never will without a breakthrough

It turns out some generative models are good enough at simulating physics that they can replace actual simulators for a fraction of the cost. Can't find the link right now, but in the excellent "two minutes papers" channel there were quite a few examples of this. In particular I remember a weather, or cloud simulation which was replicated with gen AI.