Inside Fei-Fei Li's Plan to Build AI-Powered Virtual Worlds

Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. Recent AI progress has followed a pattern. Across text, image, audio, and video, once the right technical foundations were discovered, it only took a few years for AI-generated outputs to go from merely passable to indistinguishable from human creation. Although it's early, recent advances suggest that virtual worlds--3D environments you can explore and interact with--could be next.