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Posted by acossta 18 hours ago

Genie 4(deepmind.google)
881 points | 506 commentspage 4
TheAceOfHearts 16 hours ago|
I would like to see how it breaks, don't spend all your focus on how nice it looks with specially curated shots. At least give a few examples of what happens when it breaks from running too long. They mention that it can fail under "Understanding current limitations" but don't show any examples. Especially since they mention the cases of safety and responsible use, it seems quite relevant to help prepare people by showing them some examples of how it can break and so you an learn to spot it.
StilesCrisis 13 hours ago|
Their posted videos show plenty of failures. Read the rest of the comment section.
mynti 16 hours ago||
Again, very impressive from a technical point. But language is so flawed to do anything creative. It just turns out all looking the same and kind of boring
BLanen 13 hours ago||
In the first comparison of Genie 3 to Genie 4 it seems that:

- in Genie 4 the character's suit stopped making sense in the back where it now has a weird fold?

- the controls don't control the character even anymore as now its controlling some kid-height character in first person instead?

- Everything looks like Unreal Engine.

This does not look good.

Groxx 12 hours ago||
"controlling" some kid-height character. the button-pressing seems almost frustrated with the lack of response, long holds with no (or opposite) change and sometimes mashing. are they supposed to be buttons a person pressed to direct it? or did it create those too?
Oarch 13 hours ago||
I found it perplexing how the dragons shrank in size, or perhaps the castle turret in the background didn't shrink fast enough.

Either way, the sense of believability was rapidly (and smoothly) lost.

WarmWash 17 hours ago||
I highly suspect that Genie is being made primarily for internal use, and access is more to gather feedback/training data and a bit of PR.
Andrex 6 hours ago||
> Google AI Ultra exclusive

> AI Ultra (and thus Genie) are not available for Workspace companies

Who is this for?

ncr100 14 hours ago||
Q: Is there a easy way for average people to recognize these live super-deep fakes?

I know I could run the content through a fingerprint detector. However, I'm a professional software engineer...not a normal user.

What's the ethical impact of this technology??

Jtarii 9 hours ago||
>Is there a easy way for average people to recognize these live super-deep fakes?

Almost all the AI gen videos I have seen have extremely weird camera movement when panning around, it usually just looks way too smooth/uncanny.

StilesCrisis 13 hours ago||
The non-coherence of the world is a pretty solid tell. Any time the camera pans away and then back, the scene changes. The model doesn't remember what used to be there dozens of frames ago and so it invents something new.
vatsachak 17 hours ago||
What is the point of this vs cheap robotic arm simulations?

The only place I see this applicable is for visual artists prototyping

educar 47 minutes ago||
Training interns maybe? Like they have these 3d simulated driving lessons pods now
nowittyusername 16 hours ago|||
Humans interact with their environment by subconsciously simulating it and predicting what will happen in the next few moments. This ability gives us the capacity to work more efficiently and reliably in any environment. These world models will serve a similar purpose to the AI and robotic systems of tomorrow. This is a foundational piece.
visarga 16 hours ago||
We don't have to fall off a cliff to learn to drive on a mountain road, we can imagine the consequences for cheaper. If we didn't have imagination life would be much more dangerous.
ajs1998 17 hours ago|||
You could produce a thousand cheap ads for your product or one expensive real ad.
archerx 16 hours ago||
Podcasting is going through the thousand cheap ads with the obnoxiously inserted interstitial ads. What they have accomplished is me unsubscribing to the worst offending podcast and beginning the journey of ad blocking on podcast with the help of whisper and LLMs. Also now I hate Shopify with the heat of a 1000 burning suns due to their obnoxious ads and the insane rate they get played.

So yea that one expensive ad would probably have a positive impact compared to a tidal wave of slop. Quality > Quantity after all.

throw310822 17 hours ago||
You could produce immersive VR content specified only by prompts and in which any action is possible.
Jtarii 16 hours ago||
Wish fulfilment gets extremely boring, extremely fast.

Video games are interesting because of very specific constraints the developers impose on the player.

throw310822 16 hours ago||
The authors could still design their prompts to steer players towards predefined developments and situations. Anyway, the possibilities of something like this are infinite, the only constraint will be the cost of the compute.
meerita 15 hours ago||
The future of movies will be promising.

[1]: https://www.minid.net/2026/8/2/the-actor-was-the-expensive-p...

Jtarii 9 hours ago||
Thank you for that article, it was a great laugh.
monk_grilla 10 hours ago||
You are a shell of a human being.
LASR 9 hours ago|
We’ve come a long way from simulating a Unix file system in a GPT-3 prompt haven’t we?
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