Ashley Edwards

In this conversation, Ashley Edwards, a member of the technical staff at Runway with past affiliations at Google DeepMind and Uber, reveals the innovative Genie project. They discuss Genie’s ability to create interactive video environments for training reinforcement learning agents without supervision. Topics include the mechanics of latent action models, video tokenization, and dynamics modeling for frame prediction. Ashley highlights the practical implications of Genie and compares it to other models like Sora, mapping out future directions in video generation.

Ashley Edwards, a leading figure from Runway and co-author of the Genie paper, discusses groundbreaking advancements in AI video generation. She delves into Genie’s ability to create interactive environments through latent action models and the challenges of maintaining action consistency. The conversation highlights the transformative potential of AI on content creation jobs and robotics. They also touch on evaluation metrics for AI-generated content, revealing the future implications of interactive AI and its role in reshaping the workforce.