Google DeepMind just dropped 'Genie', an AI that can generate interactive video games. This is a huge deal. Genie is trained on 200,000 hours of unsupervised public internet gaming videos and can generate video games from a single prompt or image. But here's what's insane: Despite not being trained... on action or text annotations, the foundation model can determine who the main character is and enable a user to control that character in the generated world. It does this through its Latent Action Model, Video Tokenizer, and Dynamics Model (will go more in-depth on this in tomorrow's newsletter for those interested). And for those asking, yes, it's research-only and not publicly available (here come the Google memes), and it does come with some limitations, like only currently creating games at 1FPS. But this is the worst AI will ever be. Anyone will be able to create their own entirely imagined virtual worlds soon, and that's a wild sentence to say out loud.show more

Google DeepMind also trained Genie on robotics videos as a proof-of-concept for potential world model applications in robotics. The team lead for Genie: "We think this is a promising step towards general world models for AGI."

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Waiting in the next 2 hours for OpenAI to drop ChatGPT 4.5 or something else world-changing. And steal the lights from Google :) Again.

Would definitely make sense for them to drop something right about now

From text-to-movies to now text-to-games…what a future ahead 🤯

Not gonna lie, I didn’t think we’d see an actual interactive AI video game in 2024. But here we are, in February

Absolute garbage

but can it generate crysis

I am a gaming browser for everyone except people that play this

All of the examples look like the same 1980s-style game with slightly different designs. It’ll be exciting to see this evolve, though.

It’s like the first version of Midjourney. Just the beginning.