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Re:Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes by falcor84 on Friday July 19, 2024 @12:17PM (#41008015)
>That still won’t make them understand physics

I would assume that larger models working with additional training data will eventually allow them to understand physics to the same extent as humans inspecting the world - i.e. to capture what we call Naive Physics [0]. But the limit isn't there; the next generation of GenAI could model the whole scene and then render it with ray tracing (no special casing needed).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_physics

Re:Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes by layer8 on Friday July 19, 2024 @12:24PM (#41008112)
There seems to be little basis for this assumption, as current models don’t exhibit understanding. Understanding would allow to apply it to situations that don’t match existing patterns in the training data.
Re:Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes by aj7 on Friday July 19, 2024 @12:33PM (#41008222)
That’s not large models “understanding physics.” Better, giving output “statistically consistent” with real physical measurements. And no one, to my knowledge, has yet succeeded in a general AI app that reverts to a deterministic calculation in response to a prompt.
Re:Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes by astrange on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:43PM (#41010311)
> And no one, to my knowledge, has yet succeeded in a general AI app that reverts to a deterministic calculation in response to a prompt.

They will all do this with a fixed seed. They just don't do that because nobody wants it.

Re:Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes by paulmd on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:39PM (#41010278)
chatgpt has had the ability to generate and call out to deterministic python scripts for a year now