New Sora Demo from OpenAI [video] 2 years ago
I'm particularly impressed by the way Sora generates crashing waves here. Truly breathtaking stuff.
I fully realize there's no meaningful sense in which these models simulate physics, but it's simultaneously very difficult to deny that their output is a strong approximation of reality (at least visually).
I wonder if anyone seriously starts to model physics by throwing huge amounts of AI compute at AI models, rather than attempting to model reality.