Simulation

“I think we can basically predict where AI will certainly have superhuman capabilities. And those are all scenarios and all domains where we can either have a simulation and or a verification tool.”

“This technology around simulation, creating accurate representation of people ought to precede the more complex agents that would automate the world that we live in.”

“The reason why people are interested in simulation actually isn't because they want to predict the future. If you're winning against, if you're trying to win against a stock market, predicting the future is interesting, but most people, most decision makers, w…”

“My hunch here is I do think in the next Some number of years, we will start creating simulations that will actually cost as much as training a foundation model.”

“This is the reason why you want to run a simulation. You spend five years, forty million dollars on this one study and have one finding. But if you can run simulation many, many times instantly, then that's the value.”

“You look at any advanced civilization in science fiction, there's two twin pillar technology. One's AGI in some form, and the other is simulation.”

“The way I see it, simulation as a piece of technology is one of the twin pillars of technology. I'm a fan of science fiction. You read any advanced science fiction, there's always two pillars. One is some form of AGI that always shows up. The other is simulati…”

“I actually think simulation has even better mechanism, which is the world is our ground truth. We live in the ground truth world. So what we can do is every single day, we can be generating tens of thousands of hypotheses. Each hypothesis is mapped onto an end…”

“I actually do think simulation can actually be the next frontier of that, where in my vision, I think there's a world in which in about two, three years, we're running a single simulation session, and that's going to take 10, twenty million dollars to run a si…”

“So at first go, no simulation is, is going to represent the real world. There's always a process of this sim to real matching where you actually, you need the real world feedback to basically feed into the parameters that are being used in the simulator.”

“There is a meniscus line where you cross where still doing real world testing is better. There's a, in the central real gap, you can reproduce reality at exceedingly expensive costs. And this, nothing is free. So really you have to refining that line where you…”

“If you've seen videos of humanoids doing all these acrobatics, right? There's a particular pipeline that makes that work, which is very heavily reliant on simulation, and actually very light on real world data, often almost, often actually zero real world data…”

“We could spin up a million bots right now and put it in a simulation and it would be the most boring thing ever.”

“Basically the best model whatever, Opus seven or GPT 10, like it really can only propose the first experiment, maybe slightly more clever, but at a certain point you just need information, right? Like some little calculations you can do that, like, there's mor…”

“So I think this is one of the fundamental, I don't know, dichotomies of the world is that simulations stimulate really boring things really well. They don't simulate interesting things very well.”

“I think simulation will actually be the larger market initially. So I think in simulation because you have very little constraints also from a safety perspective, simulation is much easier. So I think a lot of the takeoff initially sits in simulation.”

“I think that the analog of synthetic data in language models is actually not necessarily simulation in robotics, but closer to something like reinforcement learning.”

“It hasn't worked nearly as well for manipulating objects or working with your hands, and I think the reason for that is then the difficulty isn't about, like, how do you move your hands? It's more about the world that you're manipulating, and that is much hard…”

“People who are just kind of starting work in robotics often think that you can just do things in, in simulation. But they quickly learned that it is really important to actually run your software on the robot. And then especially in field robotics, run that ro…”

“In material science, I think one of the issues is the experimental data is actually quite noisy. So, you know, this is something that you might hear often that simulations and DFT isn't very accurate, and that's true, but maybe one thing that People don't noti…”

“Everything in the world of atoms that can be simulated and simulated in a way that's very high fidelity description of how it operates, I think will be. And ironically, we'll be building some of these robots after we've built the virtual robot, after we get it…”

“When you think about simulation in self-driving car, like we are really mostly thinking about systems that hopefully don't physically interact with each other, right? Like if two cars get in contact with each other, that's a really terrible thing, right? And s…”

“What's different about simulation in the past versus simulation today is simulation in the past was usually used to build hardware products, and we're using simulation to build a software product.”

“It's also infrastructure in the sense that it's used continuously on an ongoing basis. Whereas the traditional forms of simulation were typically used sort of for this big bang moment, which is the, it's the creation of this final hardware specification, which…”

“There are no complex systems that are being developed without simulation aircraft military systems, automotive internal combustion engines, microprocessors, simulation is everywhere.”

“So I think actually in physics and chemistry, this is, simulation is, is a dominant paradigm.”

“At Improbable, we don't really believe that a simulation should be this, like, standalone box where knowledge comes out of. We see it as an operating platform, somewhere that you can actually make decisions and build applications that consume that simulation.”

“The way that they generate meaning, or beauty, or interest, or all the qualities that, that we want out of them is not just their ability to simulate something but the space between that simulation and the real thing.”