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Google Announces Genie 3, a System For Generating New Worlds

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I just wanted to share this because I’m finding it fascinating. Google Deepmind just announced Genie 3, a system that will generate a world that you can walk around in, based on a single image. At least that seems to be the promise. Doesn’t have to be our world, either. Imagine taking a screenshot from a game and feeding it into a system that you can then walk around in and change. I mean I know we can already walk around in game worlds.. but maybe from a point and click adventure or something!

This is all second hand info as Genie 3 isn’t available to the public yet. I think the real purpose of it is to build ‘digital twins’ to train AI models for robots and such, but you know we nerds will bend it to our will once it becomes available.

The embargo for this lifted earlier today so you’ll probably see a lot of discussion of it from people much smarter than me; I’ll just share the video:

Groovy, right? And here’s a the official link to learn more: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/

[Image generated by Google Imagen 3 using the obvious prompt: Make me an image for the top of a post about Deepmind’s new Genie 3 system]

Lively Launches

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For quite some time we’ve heard rumors that Google was working on some kind of virtual world project.

Today, they launched Lively (I’m still trying to figure out if there’s any relation between this project and Sun’s Lively Kernel project, but I think not), a web-based virtual world product that, frankly, I’m still trying to figure out.

Of course they didn’t stop me from creating a Room. It’s quite fancy, don’t you think? /sarcasm

[EDIT: Well it seems like you can’t create new content at this point, just drag and drop stuff others have made. Which makes the whole exercise a lot less interesting to me at this point.]

Presumably, you’ll need to install Lively before you can see anything.