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AI video generatorscant understand the laws of physics solely by watching videos, scientists have found.

Coming hot on the heels of chatbots and image generators, AI video generators likeSoraandRunwayhave already been deliveringimpressive results.

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This should happen both when the images are ones the AI model has seen before and also unfamiliar ones.

They found that the models could ‘mimic’ physics but not understand it.

At best, the models tried to mimic the closest training example they could find.

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a square randomly turns into a ball) or made other nonsensical adjustments.

Shape received the least emphasis.

Have they found a solution?

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Have they found a solution?

Not yet, lead author Bingyi Kang wrote onX.

Actually, this is probably the mission of the whole AI community, he added.

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