Why does this CEO think video games provide better training data than the Internet?

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Cloud are great at manipulating text, but they are less adept at understanding how things actually move through space and time, a skill essential to producing generalized intelligence. It turns out that this gap can be filled with gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a New York-based startup backed by Bezos at $2.3 billion and which just closed a $320 million round With Kuato, Eric Schmidt, and researchers at MIT and Google DeepMind joining the list of investors.

In this episode of TechCrunch justice Podcast General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte joins Rebecca Bellan to dig into why global models trained on gaming data could be the next big leap in physical AI, how the company exited gaming platform Medal TV, and where the ethical red lines are when your models could end up being used in defense applications.

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