The generative world engine is creating unique edge-case scenarios for Waymo self-driving vehicles to navigate around and through.
Waymo is looking to improve how its self-driving vehicles react when faced with unique scenarios, and it’s leveraging Google’s new Genie 3 world engine AI model to do it. It’s testing everything from sudden tornadoes and heavy snow conditions to deep flood waters and wild animal encounters.
When Google launched its Genie 3 world engine for Gemini Ultra Plan subscribers last week, it was quickly picked up as a tool to shortcut game prototype development. But one of the more realistic ways to use world engines is in training robots and other physical AI devices to understand the world around them. So, Waymo (a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet) is using this fast world-building system to test out its driving AI in the kind of scenarios that are hard to plan for in the real world.
