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The First Entirely AI-Generated Video Game Is Insanely Weird and Fun
Generative AI may transform video game design, but the first playable title is just bizarre and fascinating.
Minecraft remains remarkably popular a decade or so after it was first released, thanks to a unique mix of quirky gameplay and open world building possibilities. Oasis uses a transformer AI model, similar to the one that powers a large language model—only trained, apparently, on endless examples of people playing Minecraft, to dream up each new video frame in response to the previous one and to user input like clicks or mouse moves. It’s telling that this generative AI project is not entirely original, but rather seems to be a bizarro knock-off of the world's most popular game (it was trained on an open source Minecraft dataset from OpenAI).
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