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.
