[smusamashah]

See the demo on their homepage. Calling it a world simulator is a marketing gimmick. It's a worse video generator but you can interact with it in real time and direct the video a little bit. Next version of this thing will be worth looking, this one isnt.

[netsharc]

It's plato's cave, but in color! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RWOpQXTltA&t=56s

[Animats]

> Calling it a world simulator is a marketing gimmick.

Yes, it should be called an AI Metaverse.

It does do a nice job of short term prediction. That's useful as a component of common sense.

[nowittyusername]

There is soo much marketing bs around these things it drives me nuts. and it doesn't help that the large labs and credible individuals like denis use these terms. "world models" are video generator with contextual memory but that term is soo misplaced. when one thinks of a "world model" you expect the thing to be at least be physics engine driven from its foundation, not the other way around where everything is generated and assumed at best.

[vrighter]

why would you assume anything about "the next version"?

[smusamashah]

Based it on other video models, all the ones I have seen keep improving. This one should too. Infact, Google is doing it already with their Genie (IIRC). That one is high quality and interactive.