[JeremyNT]

Even as a layman and AI skeptic, to me this entirely matches my expectations, and something like this seemed like it was basically inevitable as of the first demos of video rendering responding to user input (a year ago? maybe?).

Not to detract from what has been done here in any way, but it all seems entirely consistent with the types of progress we have seen.

It's also no surprise to me that it's from Google, who I suspect is better situated than any of its AI competitors, even if it is sometimes slow to show progress publicly.

[westbrookt]

https://worldmodels.github.io/

I think this was the first mention of world models I've seen circa 2018.

This is based on VAEs though.

[kranke155]

Google seems to have had the keys to changing the world years ago and decided not to.

Hard to fault them as the process towards ASI now appears to be runaway and uncontrollable.