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Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code (www.newscientist.com)

submitted 2 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The model, called GameNGen, was made by Dani Valevski at Google Research and his colleagues, who declined to speak to New Scientist. According to their paper on the research, the AI can be played for up to 20 seconds while retaining all the features of the original, such as scores, ammunition levels and map layouts. Players can attack enemies, open doors and interact with the environment as usual.

After this period, the model begins to run out of memory and the illusion falls apart.

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[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I really hope this doesn't catch on, Games are already horifically inefficient, imagine if we started making them like this and a 4090 becomes the minnimum system requirement for goddamn DOOM.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Games are already horifically inefficient

That's so far from the truth, it hurts me to read it. Games are one of the most optimised programs you can run on your computer. Just think about it, it's a application rendering an entire imaginary world every dozen milliseconds. Compare it to anything else you run, like say slack or teams, which makes your CPU sweat just to notify you about a new message.

[–] PaellaVacuum -4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Right buddy, seems like you've never had to play on a 3-gen old non-gaming laptop. That's such a privileged view lmao.

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