Project Genie

“Google put together a rather lame visual stunt”

“both times it helped me stop freezing at the start”

“it'll be unbearably bland, and will be abandoned in one year tops”

“It works, but not in Firefox. You have to use Chrome, and no, it doesn't tell you this.”

“Basically A Huge Plagiarism Tool”

“It is either down or hopelessly underprovisioned by Google.”

“They also don’t mention that the longer it runs over around 15 seconds the more hallucination until it’s a garbled mess.”

“it has just been stuck in the "Don't go anywhere, it's almost ready" state for 10+ minutes”

“This is really great and to me, it feels like another ChatGPT moment.”

“These are extremely impressive from a technological progression standpoint, and at the same time not at all compelling”

“all I see is an image generator that's working really fast, so nothing novel.”

“this will go crazy for kids - being able to run around as a doll or action figure in their room”

“This is digital heroin of the purest kind.”

“I feel that this is too costly for that kind of usage.”

“high control latency, gradual loss of detail and drift towards videogamey behavior”

“It's an experimental research prototype, but it also feels like a hint of the future.”

“The idea of infinite interactive worlds is a huge leap for gaming and simulation.”

“this is really cool, and it will undoubtedly have its use”

“The creation of the most profitable, addictive and ultimately dystopian technology Big Tech has ever come up with.”

“It's hallucinating videos with an input channel to guide what the video looks like.”

“an AI agent cannot learn from a hallucinated world without internal consistency guarantees”

“the physics are kind of my biggest criticism”

“How are you justifying the enormous energy cost this toy is using, exactly?”

“It's ability to simulate physics intact is actually a huge breakthrough.”

“this appears to have more morphing issues and less user interactivity with environmental consistency”

“This is a video model, not a world model.”

“These models look like you can interact with them and they seem to replicate physics models.”

“It really is impressive, don't get me wrong, but I can't find a single video that doesn't have major physics problems.”

“Really great to see this released!”

“I get an Error 404 after login.”

“Trying to hallucinate an entire world is a dead-end.”

“it's impressive and all but the result always looks kind of dead”

“It's very impressive tech but subject to the same limitations as other generative AI: Inconsistency, inaccurate physics”

“It seems to be generating images in real time, not 3d scenes. It might still be useful for prototyping.”

“There's no grounding in exact physical models, which is what you'd want for a training sim.”

“This would be really cool if polished and integrated with VR.”

“it feels like I'm living in the future”

“permanence is still out of reach apparently”