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Song: Compute Scale Replaces Years of Explicit Graphics and Physics Engineering
“What's really surprising to me is how a large scale of compute is Mostly all you need to capture a lot of the, like, intricate effects that people spend years to develop in, like, graphics and, you know, physics simulation community”
Jiaming Song Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 5:21 Luma's Dream Machine and Reasoning in Video Models
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Song: Strict Physics Simulation Cannot Solve Fictional or Artistic Video Generation
“If we were trying to reason about the world via the traditional kind of physics techniques, it is very difficult to kind of reason about things inside a totally fictional world. So I think this is something that more happens like inside our dreams rather than …”
Jiaming Song Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 25:42 Luma's Dream Machine and Reasoning in Video Models
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Song: Video AI Models Learn Psychological Causality Beyond Basic Physics
“And this is possibly caused by this eye being very unnaturally looking, and this is some kind of a cause and effect that is, like, even harder to reason, like, strictly in the physics, but more delving into how just human psychology works. So I think the causa…”
Jiaming Song Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 22:41 Luma's Dream Machine and Reasoning in Video Models
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Song: 3D AI Models Face Severe Data Scalability Bottleneck Compared to 2D
“Three D data has this scalability issue, and you If you compare that with like images, everyone can, you know, use their cell phone to take a photo or, you know, take a video. Whereas if you try to do the same with three D is very difficult. You either have to…”
Jiaming Song Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 1:55 Luma's Dream Machine and Reasoning in Video Models
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Song: 2D Image Models Cannot Reason About Camera Physics or Motion
“The limitations of images was that it wasn't able to reason about how You know, the camera works in the world because it only has like a relatively independent shots of different objects.”
Jiaming Song Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 4:24 Luma's Dream Machine and Reasoning in Video Models
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Song: NeRF and Gaussian Splatting Suffer Major Real-World Capture Limitations
“When you try to develop, like, deploy these techniques in, in, in the wild, there are many issues that comes with this imperfect capture, like, capturing system that comes along. Like, people, when they're trying to capture an object, will oftentimes not captu…”
Jiaming Song Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 8:00 Luma's Dream Machine and Reasoning in Video Models
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