On: Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

[forrestthewoods]

> this is a clear glimpse into the future.

Not for video games it isn’t.

[dlivingston → forrestthewoods]

Unless and until state can be stored outside of the model.

I for one would love a video game where you're playing in a psychedelic, dream-like fugue.

[forrestthewoods → dlivingston]

It is plausible to run a full simulation the old fashioned way and realtime render it with a diffusion model.

It is not currently, or near term, realistic to make a video game where a meaningful portion of the simulation is part of the model.

There will probably be a few interactive model-first experiences. But they’ll be popular as short novelties not meaningful or long experiences.

A simple question to consider is how would you adjust a set of simple tunables in a model-first simulator? For example giving the player more health, making enemies deal 2x damage, increasing move speed, etc etc. You can not.

[chrz → dlivingston]

Unless you can change fundamental problem that it doesnt follow the state the way you want exactly

[throwmeaway222 → dlivingston]

It's kinda crazy though that a single game session would be burning enough natural gas to power 3 cities. Unless that's not true