Reminds me of this [1] HN post from 9 months ago, where the author trained a neural network to do world emulation from video recordings of their local park — you can walk around in their interactive demo [2]. I don't have access to the DeepMind demo, but from the video it looks like it takes the idea up a notch. Edit: ah original Genie paper is 2024 [3] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43798757 [2] https://madebyoll.in/posts/world_emulation_via_dnn/demo/ [3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15391
Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
Jake Bruce, Michael Dennis, Ashley Edwards
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Jack Parker-Holder, Yuge Shi, Edward Hughes, Matthew Lai, Aditi Mavalankar, Richie Steigerwald, Chris Apps, Yusuf Aytar, Sarah Bechtle, Feryal Behbahani, Stephanie Chan, Nicolas Heess, Lucy Gonzalez, Simon Osindero, Sherjil Ozair, Scott Reed, Jingwei Zhang, Konrad Zolna, Jeff Clune, Nando de Freitas, Satinder Singh, Tim Rocktäschel
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We introduce Genie, the first generative interactive environment trained in an unsupervised manner from unlabelled Internet videos. The model can be prompted to generate an endless variety of action-controllable virtual worlds described through text, synthetic images, photographs, and even sketches. At 11B parameters, Genie can be considered a foundation world model. It is comprised of a spatiotemporal video tokenizer, an autoregressive dynamics model, and a simple and scalable latent action model. Genie enables users to act in the generated environments on a frame-by-frame basis despite training without any ground-truth action labels or other domain-specific requirements typically found in the world model literature. Further the resulting learned latent action space facilitates training agents to imitate behaviors from unseen videos, opening the path for training generalist agents of the future.
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No, they actually did use a genie-like model to train robots on household chores. Page 8 of the Genie 1 paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15391
Here's the article itself - https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15391 Unfortunately, it seems they haven't actually made the code, or example games available to try.
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