There is something to be said about hiring the right people.Google is going to be extremely hard to beat due to its possession of the greatest data set in existence from its global dominance of search, video, and geographic mapping; and of course its tradition of investing heavily in R&D research. Meta really has no chance in general AI (too narrowly focused on social media) and should pivot to a domain it could dominate like chat bots, similar to Grok has done to create its own niche. As for Open AI and Anthropic, their main claim to fame is that they’re perceived to have a start up culture & can thus move faster towards AGI, but I think both will experience diminishing returns in the years to come as they will become resource constrained in multi modal models.
They're eventually going to crush jobs in the games industry.As far as Genie3 or any other future competitor is concerned, I believe their real potential as a social good is in how they can be used for education, especially in VR and AR scenarios. It seems as though the developers are thinking along the same lines, since they write: "Genie 3 could create new opportunities for education and training, helping students learn and experts gain experience. Not only can it provide a vast space to train agents like robots and autonomous systems, Genie 3 can also make it possible to evaluate agents’ performance, and explore their weaknesses."
AI can help even mediocre teachers boil learning points to their essense, and it is possible (but not certain) that these kind of generative environments can reinforce those learning points in much shorter times. Imagine being able to just say, "Okay class, put on your glasses and lets go on a tour of (fill in the blank city) during (fill in the blank year)." Or having all your students be transported to some environment where all of your learning objectives are manifested in real-time. For instance having name labels be automatically superimposed over objects or tools, or conversely being prompted to label them or say their name out loud, or dissassemble and reassemble some complex object at random intervals until students know a topic inside out.
Think much biggerAs far as Genie3 or any other future competitor is concerned, I believe their real potential as a social good is in how they can be used for education, especially in VR and AR scenarios. It seems as though the developers are thinking along the same lines, since they write: "Genie 3 could create new opportunities for education and training, helping students learn and experts gain experience. Not only can it provide a vast space to train agents like robots and autonomous systems, Genie 3 can also make it possible to evaluate agents’ performance, and explore their weaknesses."
AI can help even mediocre teachers boil learning points to their essense, and it is possible (but not certain) that these kind of generative environments can reinforce those learning points in much shorter times. Imagine being able to just say, "Okay class, put on your glasses and lets go on a tour of (fill in the blank city) during (fill in the blank year)." Or having all your students be transported to some environment where all of your learning objectives are manifested in real-time. For instance having name labels be automatically superimposed over objects or tools, or conversely being prompted to label them or say their name out loud, or dissassemble and reassemble some complex object at random intervals until students know a topic inside out.