It's pretty incredible a model like Genie can deduce the laws of physics from mere observation of video. Even fluid dynamics which is a notoriously difficult problem. It's not obvious that this would happen or would even be possible from this kind of architecture. It's obviously doing something deep here.

As an aside, I think it's funny that the AI Doomer crowd ignores image and video AI models when it comes to AI models that will enslave humanity. It's not inconceivable that a video model would have a better understanding of the world than an LLM. So perhaps it would grow new capabilities and sprout some kind of intent. It's super-intelligence! Surely these models if trained long enough will deduce hypnosis or some similar kind of mind control and cause mass extinction events.

I mean, the only other explanation why LLMs are so scary and likely to be the AI that kills us all is that they're trained on a lot of sci-fi novels so sometimes they'll say things mimicking sentient life and express some kind of will. But obviously that's not true ;-)