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GP Gavin Purcell Emmy-winning showrunner, writer and creative executive with a background on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, now focused on explaining AI tools and news with...

“I keep thinking there's going to be a job called imagination engineer. It's a better version of prompt engineer for most normal people, where your job is to come up with weird scenarios the AI wouldn't think of on its own. Like in that pipette video: what if an earthquake happened?”

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends · October 2026

“I keep thinking there's going to be a job called imagination engineer. It's a better version of prompt engineer for most normal people, where your job is to come up with weird scenarios the AI wouldn't think of on its own. Like in that pipette video: what if an earthquake happened?” — Gavin Purcell, AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

Context

Gavin was describing a Google demo of a robot trained inside a generated world model. He says the real use is simulating the real world for training, and imagines a human job dreaming up the edge cases.

Transcript

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends Around 18:45 into the episode
Gavin Purcell

How come? Why not?

Kevin Pereira

I'm not big smart. I don't know if you know this about me. I'm not. I'm not big smart.

Gavin Purcell

That's what the trillions of super intelligence are for, Kevin. I just want to say one last thing about Genie before we go. In the blog post, which you should read, it's very long, a lot of really good examples from Google and Genie 4. They show video of a robot training in this model. And this is what it's really, really being created for. Like, we can talk about like riding porcupines all day and like that's fun and the idea that we would want to do stuff like that. But really what it's being created for is to simulate the real world. And in this video, they show like a robot like putting pipettes into the like different, you know, I know a lot about pipettes because of you can see everything now. I went deep on Elizabeth Holmes' story, so I know a lot about pipettes. But like if you can set up a system where I keep thinking there's going to be a job where like the job is like, is like imagination engineer. And the idea basically is human brain, only it's kind of like a version of prompt engineer, but it's a better version for most normal people where your job is…

Kevin Pereira

like that. I think it is a watershed moment for these models and we have now reached a watershed moment not only for this particular show, Gavin, but I think our podcast at large because I just found out. Don't yell at me for being late to the party, okay? Just be glad that I showed up. I found out…

Gavin Purcell

I have a new one coming on Monday that I think is interesting. It's going to be, it's about AI and education and children's education. But I do appreciate every single person who has given us a dollar on our Patreon, all that stuff. So please, thank you so much. Also, we have a Discord where we…

Kevin Pereira

The moment I'm done with getting those milk and cigarettes, I'm going to be in that Discord. I'm going to be there. Fair enough. All caps and so excited. But thank you. Please, juicy algo. Leave a little algo juice in the comments below. All right, let's get to GPT 6.1. Terra da da. Yeah,

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