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points by mlmonkey 2 days ago | 0 comments

> How often do things in the real world not behave exactly as you expected them to?

They wouldn't be called "Laws of Physics" if obeying them was optional. If your center of gravity is outside your base, you _will_ topple over. That's just how gravity works.

[–] peddling-brink 2 days ago

Your expectation is the point, not the physics. I'm not arguing that their model has an amazing grasp of physics. I'm arguing that this can be used as a predictive internal model for a robot.

[–] mlmonkey 1 day ago

I hear you, but my objection comes from the stress on "realism" in Google's post: how Genie4 is modeling the "real world" so well. If they didn't crow so much about realism, I wouldn't have cared as much.