The major difference being the former scales very poorly for generating training data compared to the latter. Genie 2 is not even a video game and has worse fidelity that video games, the upside is it probably scales even better than video games for generating training scenarios. If you want androids in teal life, Genie 2 (or similar systems) is how you bootstrap the agent AI. The training pipeline will be: raw video -> Genie 2 -> game engine with rules -> physical robot
One of those arrows is not like the others
Any model would have to succeed in one stage before it can proceed to the next one.
Self driving vars have cameras as part of their sensor suite, and have models to make sense of sensor data. Video will help with perception and classification (understanding the world) with no agency needed. Game-playing will help with planning, execution, and evaluation. Both functions are necessary, and those that come after rely on earlier capabilities
For example, let's say that the car is approaching an intersection, and suddenly sees a puddle on the road to the left getting brighter - a visual world model like this might extrapolate a scenario that the brightness is the result of a car moving towards the intersection assigning this some probability, and signing another probably to a scenario that it's just a flickering headlight, and the car would then decide whether and how much to slow down.
In this example there is a sensor, but it definitely doesn't tell the robot "exactly what is there", and while we could try to write rules about what it should do, the Bitter Lesson tells us it's better to just let it create its own model.
Page 8 of the Genie 1 paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15391
That's nice. I'm not completely disabled, but I am disabled, and I very much would appreciate them, as my capability to do things over the longer term is very much not going to go in the direction of improving. As it is, there are a lot of things I now rely on people for, that at one time, I did not.
Whilst I recognise its probably not going to happen in a time span that is useful to me, I do wish it could, so that I could be less of a burden on those around me, and maintain a relative level of independence.
Unless you have a young/quick death, there's a really good chance you will be, too.