Infinigen: Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation

KolmogorovComp | 293 points

Really cool project.

Some questions to ML/AI researchers here on HN:

- Are there any ML/AI papers out there that trained on this? E.g. training robots in virtual environments?

- What data sets are used today in the ML/AI space to train robots?

guld | 6 months ago

Hasn't this been posted before? It's cool, I agree, but it's been around for a few years. Has there been an update?

NBJack | 6 months ago

The indoor scenes look completely plausible, but the outdoor leaves a lot to be desired. Very much behind the state of the art.

Stevvo | 6 months ago

The fact that this is possible feels like it says something about the universe— that there is not as much information in our environment as we think there is.

This in turn could explain the unreasonable effectiveness of brains — especially small ones like animal brains — at modeling and operating in the world.

api | 6 months ago

it's unclear from the readme - is this infinite as in can generate infinite variations on a scene, or infinite as in generates an infinite world?

anentropic | 6 months ago

your meta tag descriptions need to be updated and are showing placeholder content when shared

fix-your-meta | 6 months ago

I noticed several prominent Chinese universities in the authors list. Doesnt this prima facie imply a breach of the chip sanctions/export rules?

phyalow | 6 months ago

Not even subtle with that Matrix-like intro

tanepiper | 6 months ago