Ethan Mollick demonstrates real-time scene interaction in Genie 4

What happened

Genie 4: "Scene: A Victorian high tea. Character: A mouse in appropriate garb." "A porcupine walks by" "The mouse grows wings" "The mouse flies to the teacup" Mollick says this is real-time and he can walk around freely. He describes it as glitchy, but also impossibly advanced compared to a couple years ago.

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The story so far

Ethan Mollick demonstrated Genie 4 generating and changing a scene, saying it ran in real time and allowed him to walk around freely. The demonstration began with a mouse dressed for a Victorian high tea, followed by prompts for a porcupine to walk by, the mouse to grow wings, and the mouse to fly to a teacup. Mollick described the interaction as glitchy but said it was “impossibly advanced” compared with a couple of years ago.