How Google's Genie 3 could change AI video - and let you build your own interactive worlds

• World models could help to advance AI research, entertainment, etc.
• Genie 3, Google DeepMind's world model, debuted on Tuesday.
• Google DeepMind says Genie 3 has an "understanding" of the world.

Imagine exploring a virtual environment without boundaries, where everything you see looks and behaves just as it would in reality.

This is precisely what many tech developers today are working to create through AI "world models," or algorithms that can build and act upon internal, representative models of the real world, imitating the human brain's ability to make predictions about the behavior of physical objects.

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World models like Google DeepMind's new Genie 3 could have huge ramifications for AI agents, robotics, entertainment, education, and many other fields. 

Here's a look at what AI world models are ...