AI can now make any playable videogame

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Introducing Genie 2: our AI model that can create an endless variety of playable 3D worlds - all from a single image. ?

These types of large-scale foundation world models could enable future agents to be trained and evaluated in an endless number of virtual environments. ->... pic.twitter.com/qHCT6jqb1W

— Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) December 4, 2024

Pretty cool. Not at all worried about most dev jobs because this will never be able to make "deep" content, but simple games could be in trouble in a few years. Imagine a party game using it for example.

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It doesn't look that good but it's still impressive. Does a good job remembering stuff off screen. Doesn't do a good job translating stuff as you move. I think it'll still be a few years before something like this doesn't feel like a fever dream.