This is “GameNGen” (pronounced “game engine”), and is the work of researchers from Google, DeepMind, and Tel Aviv University.

of course this shit came out of israel lmao.

Saw the videos of it in action, and the best way I can describe it is "what it's like to play Doom in a dream." The graphics are often fuzzy. The health and ammo counters go weird. Enemies move slowly and fade in and out of existence. Exploded slime barrels respawn when the player's not looking. Very weird and surreal.

I could see using this tech's limitations to its advantage, creating strange and uncanny experiences along the lines of LSD: Dream Emulator, if it weren't so awful for the environment.

EDIT: It was posted to r/singularity lmao

i saw this tweet yesterday and as a game dev and designer it legit made me mad

it's the same shit AI bros do every time - they have to dumb down the meaning of the thing they're trying to imitate poorly, because they have to shift the goal posts to pretend that what they do has any legitimacy

this is in no way a game engine, and trying to pretend it is requires abstracting and dumbing down entire fields of study these nerds have never even dipped their toes into

You can have a planet burning treat printer do this at a massive energy cost or you can pay workers to do it for cheaper and with a lot less harm done. Which way, techbros?

I think the funniest part of this is that it still needs an extant game to be trained on and the end result still has no awareness or way of tracking your surroundings.

You literally already have a game that works but instead you want to strap two 4090's together to play a worse version of that same game with no level design and enemies disappear if you turn around fast enough (the 'engine' will quite literally forget about them if they're off screen)

a type of world simulation

stop trying to pretend every fucking technotreat is just a step away from "singularity" nerd rapture.

wow this AI is so great it can very, very poorly imitate images from a 31 year old video game that's specifically well known for its versatility and ease to port

maybe in a few years AI can catch up to the gaming abilities of a refrigerator

We have Doom, yes, but what about a shittier, energy-hungry version sprouted from the mind of a convulsing robot baby?

The video has the player being as slow and careful as possible, while keeping the rooms well framed at all times. In the last second of the video the player looks at a wall and then looks away, and they've transported to somewhere entirely different.

I'm not sure why this person thinks its impressive to have an AI accurately predict the layout of one of the most commonly played Doom levels? If I remember correctly, this map even has a demo playing on startup.

Like what's the point of this? Being able to exactly recreate the data it was trained on isn't even an achievement in ML, it's just called "overfitting".

John Romero is still going to make you his bitch

This is Baby's First RNN level thinking.

Elon had to sprinkle this with his own contribution of shit flakes.

The entire staff of iD should be allowed to run you down with chainsaws tbh

Now feed it nonstop terrywads

Diffusion models aren't terribly power hungry compared to something like chatGPT*, but it's weird and honestly worthless idea in the first place, so please shit on it.

*Technically you can have a gpt text embedding to drive a diffusion model so they can be just as bad, but it isn't necessarily always the case.

this tweet is so stupid I thought it was Elon until I looked

Not Even Doom Music makes treat printers cool.

I kind of want to hit this person with a brick.

Why aren't the nerds building cool robots that could solve real problems?

I don't really understand the issue people have with this. Sure it doesn't look like a particularly playable or fun game currently, but I do think it's an interesting PoC that explores different uses for current "AI". It's an idea people may likely build on.