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Infinite Photorealistic Worlds using Procedural Generation paper page: introduce Infinigen, a procedural generator of photorealistic 3D scenes of the natural world. Infinigen is entirely procedural: every asset, from shape to texture, is generated from scratch via randomized mathematical rules, using no external source and allowing infinite variation and composition....

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bellicose_bestie3 лет назад

Are research labs just publishing procedural algorithm work as "ai" on hugging face (aside from just arxiv) just to get more exposure?

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Xenofy🛸👽3 лет назад

@JCorvinusVR

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burgesst 🗿🪣3 лет назад

How the hell do you define a chameleon procedurally?

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Sir Mr Meow Meow3 лет назад

wow getting pretty amazing tbh

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baloblack3 лет назад

👍🏾

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Stalin Kay3 лет назад

@readwise save thread

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0ptim3 лет назад

Hey Sean, this might be of interest to you. @NoMansSky

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Ivan Parfenchuk3 лет назад

Infinigen Twitch stream soon?

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John R. Lawson 🌦3 лет назад

We're in the Computational Universe, after all.

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Wevolver

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Fei-Fei Li ( Fei-Fei Li ) beautifully explains Robotics. She defines robotics not by form, like humanoids or cars, but by function: they are any "embodied machines" that must perceive, understand, and act within a physical, 3D space. This core requirement is "spatial intelligence," the unifying principle of all robotics, allowing them to perform tasks and even collaborate with humans. Throughout all of human history, we have been confined to a single, shared reality: the "physical Earth 3D world." This singularity has been our only playground. However, new technologies that combine 3D generation and reconstruction are shattering this limitation. We can now create "infinite universes"—a multiverse of digital worlds for countless purposes, from training robots to enabling creativity, travel, and storytelling. This leap from one physical world to an infinite multiverse unlocks boundless possibilities for human imagination and interaction. Video from a16z
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Fei-Fei Li ( Fei-Fei Li ) beautifully explains Robotics. She defines robotics not by form, like humanoids or cars, but by function: they are any "embodied machines" that must perceive, understand, and act within a physical, 3D space. This core requirement is "spatial intelligence," the unifying principle of all robotics, allowing them to perform tasks and even collaborate with humans. Throughout all of human history, we have been confined to a single, shared reality: the "physical Earth 3D world." This singularity has been our only playground. However, new technologies that combine 3D generation and reconstruction are shattering this limitation. We can now create "infinite universes"—a multiverse of digital worlds for countless purposes, from training robots to enabling creativity, travel, and storytelling. This leap from one physical world to an infinite multiverse unlocks boundless possibilities for human imagination and interaction. Video from a16z

Rohan Paul

51,174 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

Fei-Fei Li ( Fei-Fei Li ) beautifully explains Robotics. She defines robotics not by form, like humanoids or cars, but by function: they are any "embodied machines" that must perceive, understand, and act within a physical, 3D space. This core requirement is "spatial intelligence," the unifying principle of all robotics, allowing them to perform tasks and even collaborate with humans. Throughout all of human history, we have been confined to a single, shared reality: the "physical Earth 3D world." This singularity has been our only playground. However, new technologies that combine 3D generation and reconstruction are shattering this limitation. We can now create "infinite universes"—a multiverse of digital worlds for countless purposes, from training robots to enabling creativity, travel, and storytelling. This leap from one physical world to an infinite multiverse unlocks boundless possibilities for human imagination and interaction. Video from a16z
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Fei-Fei Li ( Fei-Fei Li ) beautifully explains Robotics. She defines robotics not by form, like humanoids or cars, but by function: they are any "embodied machines" that must perceive, understand, and act within a physical, 3D space. This core requirement is "spatial intelligence," the unifying principle of all robotics, allowing them to perform tasks and even collaborate with humans. Throughout all of human history, we have been confined to a single, shared reality: the "physical Earth 3D world." This singularity has been our only playground. However, new technologies that combine 3D generation and reconstruction are shattering this limitation. We can now create "infinite universes"—a multiverse of digital worlds for countless purposes, from training robots to enabling creativity, travel, and storytelling. This leap from one physical world to an infinite multiverse unlocks boundless possibilities for human imagination and interaction. Video from a16z

Rohan Paul

41,441 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

It’s long been a dream of roboticists to be able to teach a robot in simulation so as to skip the long and expensive process of collecting large amounts of real-world training data. However, building simulations for robot tasks is extremely hard. Ideally, we could go from real data to a useful simulation. This is exactly what Guangqi Jiang and his co-authors do. they use 3d Gaussian splatting to reconstructed scenes which let them create interactive environments that, when combined with a physcs engine, allow for training robot policies that show zero-shot sim-to-real transfer (i.e., using no real-world demonstrations). To learn more, watch Episode 56 of Robopapers with Michael Cho - Rbt/Acc and Chris Paxton now!
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It’s long been a dream of roboticists to be able to teach a robot in simulation so as to skip the long and expensive process of collecting large amounts of real-world training data. However, building simulations for robot tasks is extremely hard. Ideally, we could go from real data to a useful simulation. This is exactly what Guangqi Jiang and his co-authors do. they use 3d Gaussian splatting to reconstructed scenes which let them create interactive environments that, when combined with a physcs engine, allow for training robot policies that show zero-shot sim-to-real transfer (i.e., using no real-world demonstrations). To learn more, watch Episode 56 of Robopapers with Michael Cho - Rbt/Acc and Chris Paxton now!

RoboPapers

20,434 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

AI + robotics research is starting to pick up steam. We can now instruct Spot using natural language using Language-guided Skill Coordination (LSC). A user provides a natural language instruction: "Bring me the chocolates box, cereal box, and pill bottle, and put them on the bedroom table" and the robot navigates to the location of the target objects and places them on the room table. Current versions of Spot rely on a fixed-set vocabulary that cannot generalize to diverse instructions. In this demo, the researchers presented a method that uses large language models to receive a free-form natural language instruction for object rearrangement, which it then executes. It combines: -A voice-to-text model that processes the instructions into text -An LLM that converts natural language instruction to call a library of skills -A perception module that provides ground truth locations and visual object detection And what your left with is a glimpse into what our future will hold: robots executing tasks from human voice prompts.
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AI + robotics research is starting to pick up steam. We can now instruct Spot using natural language using Language-guided Skill Coordination (LSC). A user provides a natural language instruction: "Bring me the chocolates box, cereal box, and pill bottle, and put them on the bedroom table" and the robot navigates to the location of the target objects and places them on the room table. Current versions of Spot rely on a fixed-set vocabulary that cannot generalize to diverse instructions. In this demo, the researchers presented a method that uses large language models to receive a free-form natural language instruction for object rearrangement, which it then executes. It combines: -A voice-to-text model that processes the instructions into text -An LLM that converts natural language instruction to call a library of skills -A perception module that provides ground truth locations and visual object detection And what your left with is a glimpse into what our future will hold: robots executing tasks from human voice prompts.

AI Breakfast

33,725 просмотров • 3 лет назад