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> The model needs to "understand" geometry and physics to output a video. No it doesn't. It merely needs to mimic.
by slashdave 10mo ago
> The model needs to "understand" geometry and physics to output a video.
No it doesn't. It merely needs to mimic.
- IAmGraydon 10mo agoCorrect. The fact that AI is a black box means we can easily imagine anything we want happening within that box. Or perhaps the more accurate way to say it - AI companies can convince investors of amazing magic happening within that box. With LLMs, we anthropomorphize and imagine it’s thinking. With video models, they’re now trying to convince us that it understands the world. None of these things are true. It’s all an illusion.
- slashdave 10mo agoIt's worse than that. It's not a black box. We know how the architecture is constructed. We can read the weights.
- in-silico 10mo agoHere's a recent paper showing that models trained to generate videos develop strong geometric representations and understanding: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19949 https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19949