“Predicting image frames is (for some purposes) a fine short cut or approximation, but physics it ain't.”
Our reading:
Predicting image frames is, for some purposes, a fine shortcut or approximation, but it is not physics.
Assessment: Can’t be checked
What happened
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Outcome: Can’t be checked
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Why
The sentence does not define “physics” or specify the purposes for which image prediction is a “fine” approximation [marcus-no-sora-has-not-learned-physics-10ac70-o1]. It therefore supplies no unique empirical test without adding definitions [marcus-no-sora-has-not-learned-physics-10ac70-o1].
Caveats
- The packet contains no evidence items that settle this conceptual distinction.
- Neither an implementation test nor an output benchmark can settle the sentence without specifying what “physics” and an acceptable approximation mean.
Evidence (0 items)
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How we judged it
- Kind of claim
- Observation
- Deadline
- None given. We don’t add one.
Conditions
- for some purposes (their words)
Where we had to interpret
- This sentence draws a conceptual boundary between image prediction and physics without specifying an empirical criterion for that boundary.
- For some purposes qualifies an evaluative judgment; it is not a forecast antecedent.
- Reading the sentence as a claim that Sora lacks an explicit physics engine, or as a universal claim that prediction cannot learn dynamics, would add a commitment it does not clearly make.
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Source and dates
Marcus on AI, No, Sora has not “learned physics”, paragraph 12.
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We read this wording on 2026-10-29. The post may have been edited after 2024-03-02.
Where it was said (1)
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: Marcus on AI, No, Sora has not “learned physics”
Predicting image frames is (for some purposes) a fine short cut or approximation, but physics it ain't.
- Where
- paragraph 12
- Published
- 2024-03-02
- We read it
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
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