Sora still appears to have trouble with physics
We recorded 4 claims from this post. 3 were checked against evidence. 1 can’t be checked. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (4)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
Forecast
“In February, the day after Sora came out, I warned that it didn’t really understand physics—and wouldn’t — in essay called Sora’s Surreal Physics:”
Our reading: Sora does not really understand physics and will not come to understand it.
No deadline stated Evidence as of
Limitation: Understanding has no speaker-specified test or threshold.
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
Forecast
“Sora is never really getting it, even with mountains and mountains of data.”
Our reading: Sora will never really grasp object permanence, even with vast amounts of data.
No deadline stated Evidence as of
Limitation: The cited aggregate sentence does not give a Sora-only success rate.
Assessment: SupportedSaid
Observation
“That gross violation of spatiotemporal continuity/failure of object permanence is not a one-off, either; it’s something general.”
Our reading: Sora's failures of object permanence and spatiotemporal continuity are general rather than isolated.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: Support rests on contemporaneous developer documentation rather than a representative independent audit.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“The John Locke hypothesis that you can learn physics purely from sense data is failing, over, and over, and over again; this time perhaps (if I had to guess) to the tune of a billion dollars.”
Our reading: The author guesses that Sora's failed attempt to learn physics from data may have cost around a billion dollars.
No horizon
Qualifier: author's guess