Roads to a Universal World Model, Part 3: The Cinematographer’s Road
The generative video path: learning physics from pixels
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.” — Richard Feynman
On February 15, 2024, OpenAI published a technical report with a provocative title: “Video generation models as world simulators.”
The report introduced Sora, a model that could generate up to sixty seconds of high-fidelity video from a text prompt. The videos were striking: a woman walking th…
