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New AI Model Can Simulate ‘Super Mario Bros.’ After Watching Gameplay Footage
Despite its limitations, the makers of MarioVGG think AI video could one day replace game engines.
The results of the MarioVGG model —available as a preprint paper published by the crypto-adjacent AI company Virtuals Protocol —still display a lot of apparent glitches, and it's too slow for anything approaching real-time gameplay. After preprocessing (and about 48 hours of training on a single RTX 4090 graphics card), the researchers used a standard convolution and denoising process to generate new frames of video from a static starting game image and a text input (either "run" or "jump" in this limited case). With those limits in mind, though, MarioVGG can create some passably believable video of Mario running and jumping from a static starting image, akin to Google's Genie game maker.
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