[STEAM] New AI model “learns” how to simulate Super Mario Bros. from video footage

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Super Mario Bros. videos are pretty impressive. The more you watch, though, the more glitches you'll see. (credit:

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[/url] Last month,

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's GameNGen AI model showed that

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can be used to

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. Now, researchers are using some similar techniques with a model called MarioVGG to see if an AI model can generate plausible video of Super Mario Bros. in response to user inputs.

The results of

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published by the crypto-adjacent AI company

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—still display a lot of apparent glitches, and it's too slow for anything approaching real-time gameplay at the moment. But the results show how even a limited model can infer some impressive physics and gameplay dynamics just from studying a bit of video and input data.

The researchers hope this represents a first step toward "producing and demonstrating a reliable and controllable video game generator," or possibly even "replacing game development and game engines completely using video generation models" in the future.

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