{"id":201968,"date":"2024-12-19T23:12:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T05:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ai-system-can-envision-an-entire-world-from-a-single-picture"},"modified":"2024-12-19T23:12:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T05:12:48","slug":"ai-system-can-envision-an-entire-world-from-a-single-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ai-system-can-envision-an-entire-world-from-a-single-picture","title":{"rendered":"AI system can envision an entire world from a single picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cf4apIcnPtU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Johns Hopkins computer scientists have created an artificial intelligence system capable of \u201cimagining\u201d its surroundings without having to physically explore them, bringing AI closer to humanlike reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>The new system\u2014called Generative World Explorer, or GenEx\u2014needs only a single still image to conjure an entire world, giving it a significant advantage over previous systems that required a robot or agent to physically move through a scene to map the surrounding environment, which can be costly, unsafe, and time-consuming. The team\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2412.09624\" target=\"_blank\">results<\/a> are posted to the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSay you\u2019re in an area you\u2019ve never been before\u2014as a human, you use environmental cues, past experiences, and your knowledge of the world to imagine what might be around the corner,\u201d says senior author Alan Yuille, the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computational Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johns Hopkins computer scientists have created an artificial intelligence system capable of \u201cimagining\u201d its surroundings without having to physically explore them, bringing AI closer to humanlike reasoning. The new system\u2014called Generative World Explorer, or GenEx\u2014needs only a single still image to conjure an entire world, giving it a significant advantage over previous systems that required [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}